I picked up this Thygesen for Heltborg rosewood coffee table a few weeks ago and looking for some advice on removing light scratches and some haze/fading from sun. Its hard to see in the photos, but it's there.
Would it be best to use a soft cloth or 0000 steel wool? Restor a finish? Watco teak oil? Danish oil? Something else? As you can see, it doesn't need a lot at all, but wanted to give it a once over to make it pop. I've never worked with rosewood.
Thanks in advance.
It would help to know what kind of finish is on the table presently before messing with it, but rubbing it out with #0000 steel wool on a block will knock down the sheen to satin and may minimize fine scratches to the point where a paste waxing may be all that's needed. The table looks pretty good in your pics and that's probably all I'd do to it. I certainly wouldn't recommend applying any finishing product without either completely stripping or confirming compatibility with existing finish first. Are those actual corner splines or some sort of applied decoration suggesting such?
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