Nice job how much time did you put into it? It looks like hours of work. But the difference is like night and day.
The actual working on it, didn't take that much time at all. I didn't sand it much. It took about 1 hour to sand all of it. Then a coat of stain or tru-oil only took about 10 minutes each to apply. It was the soaking in/drying that took a lot of time. After each coat, I would wait about 2 days before applying the next coat. The whole thing took about 8 days.
