Removing paint from the woodwork.

[gordon stelter]

Try to get the white off FIRST, by itself, with some
latex paint remover which will not affect the
underlying varnish. There are all sorts of things
which remove latex, but not oil-base. Ask a good paint
store.
     If that doesn't work, scrape as much as you can
off dry, so that it doesn't mix with the old varnish
during stripping and lodge in  pores as previously
mentioned. But, if some does, you can probably still
get it out by brushing with lacquer thinner and a
brass pot brush.
    Wear a good mask and gloves or you will become an
idiot.
    Thump

--- bases-loaded@juno.com wrote:
> 
> 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


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