This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 04:25:53 -0500 Phil Bondi <tito@philbondi.com> writes: > Hello all. > > I have a small grand in my shop that has been painted white, with a > roller and brush..The piano will be going through a metamorphosis, and it > belongs to me, not a client...hey, I got it for nothing! > > I'm looking for suggestions to best remove this lovely color from > this piano. > > Thanks all, > > -Phil Bondi (Fl.) > phil@philbondi.com > Hi Phil - I would opt for the conventional stripper route, but you should know that if the original finish was checking badly the white paint may very well have found it's way into the pores of the wood. Often, this is difficult, if not impossible, to fully remove. As Jim B. mentioned, if you are going black with it, then no biggie, but if were hoping for a clear 'natural' finish, there could be problems. More than once I have run into this problem, and after staining/dying the wood to the color of choice, have gone over the case from head-to-toe with a very small artist's brush, dabbing on heavily pigmented color mixed to the color of the stained wood on all of the many white specks that remain lodged in the wood. This is not something to look forward to, just to be clear;-). I have heard of a method of applying shellac to a 'speckled" case, then stripping off the shellac in hopes it will have adhered enough to the white specks to pull them out, but the process seems a bit dubious to me, and I have not tried it. Maybe you'll be lucky... it happens.... Mark Potter bases-loaded@juno.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ca/1c/4e/c8/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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