Help! How Should I Treat This Wood Table To Preserve It For Outdoor Use?

I’ve been looking for an outdoor prep station table for the new grill online and anything decent has been around $100 or it was plasticky looking schlock.  Neither one were options I wanted to act on.

Yesterday to my good fortune I was driving by a yard sale and they had a beautiful old table, the perfect height with two layers to hold food, and grilling equipment. $15 is all it cost.

So here’s the thing.  I don’t want to spend a lot of time or money restoring this table.  I’d just like to do whatever I can with an hour’s worth of elbow greasy and less than $25 in materials to protect it from the elements, knowing it will be left outdoors. 

How would you restore this table and protect it from the elements using the parameters I listed above?  Toby suggested lightly sanding it using a coarse scothch brite pad and then using polyurethane.  Does this seem like the best rout to you?

David Calvo? Anyone else that knows about wood, what are your thoughts?

 

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Micah Dean Woodturning Bowls and Lures Video II

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Micah Dean Woodturning Lures

part two of the Micah Dean woodturning video will be up at 8AM

Micah demonstrates the steps taken to make a simple block of wood into a beautiful lure or wood bowl.

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Micah Dean Woodturned Bowls
Micah Dean Woodturned Bowls
Micah Dean Woodturned Bowls
Micah Dean Woodturned Bowls
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