Thank you for your input. This is the 3rd time I try to send the pictures so the message is going to get shorter. I took pictures of both the top and bottom The table was coated with polyurethane on the top but not the bottom. We live at the end of the world in VA. What can we coat the bottom with so it will equalize. I hope someone out there can help us. I had wanted to make a table out of this wood for a long time when it finally happened I was delighted, but now.......