Red oak with a lot of bug holes

[George Wells]

Those are nice. Did you fill the holes or just leave them? I'm working on a table right now with wood that looks very similar to yours. Only problem is, the the wife wants the holes filled. Any suggestions on the best way to fill the hundreds of holes in a table top.

George

[RPE1]

Quartersawn white oak in my latest project.
I have thousands of board feet of white oak.


Not many wormy ones in the pile fortunately 

I don't know.......  Those holes look kinda fishy to me.  With that staining, might be shot.  Also, they are pretty uniform and patterned.
I hope it's worms.

RP

[2beast]

I don't know.......  Those holes look kinda fishy to me.  With that staining, might be shot.  Also, they are pretty uniform and patterned.
I hope it's worms.

RP

Nope, they are bug holes.
Tracks follow deeply into and through the wood, no shot would do that.

I have worked with this stuff for years and their is no mistaking it 

[fishhh4]

Those are nice.  Did you fill the holes or just leave them?  I'm working on a table right now with wood that looks very similar to yours. Only problem is, the the wife wants the holes filled.  Any suggestions on the best way to fill the hundreds of holes in a table top.

George

I only got them stained before I had to leave for the week . I will hit them with seal coat ...heavy on the 4 horizontal surfaces . Then two coats of a waterborn poly  ...heavy on the horizontals  . I will wait a week and try to level sand the four tops . Then one or two more heavy coats on the flat horizontal  surfaces . Just so when I dust I am not filling them up with dust . The verticals I am not as worried about . They make a grain filler for oak . I did not want to use a filler .

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