Covering a chipboard circular table

[Whoever]

Can anybody suggest the best way of making one of those cheap circular little occasional chipboard tables look like it's real wood to match some new beech furniture. It's currently covered with tablecloth & lace cover but we now need something to give it an up-to-date modern look. Don't think Fablon will stick to the rough top surface.

[weeal]

You can buy kits that match timber colours and you get a graining tool with them, basically theres a base colour then as you apply the top colour you drag the graining tool down in lines and it looks like wood grain. Its not fab but it would work if the wee table is far enough away from the real wood. Its wood-effect.

[weeal]

http://www.paintquality.co.uk/deco/paint/wood_ graining.htm

http://www.ronseal.co.uk/products/product.jsp? id=42