finishing questions .... second edition

[Greg Newell]

I just took another look at the lid and I think that the lid is a red dyed 
mahogany with a dark walnut type poor filler with the stain mixed in if I 
had to guess. What I've uncovered, probably from using a scotch bright pad 
during the stripping process, is the reddish looking mahogany underneath 
not a sun bleached section like originally thought. As was pointed out the 
sun bleached section is common so I guess I was looking for that and 
incorrectly labeled the problem. Sorry if I through you off track! I'm 
still not sure how to deal with sun bleached wood should that present 
itself on another piano but that's a topic for the future.

Greg Newell



At 04:27 PM 2/17/2005, you wrote:
>Greetings again listees,
>         I just had a chance to go out to the shop and try the acetone 
> suggestion and have discovered something. The lighter color that I 
> thought was a sun bleached area is in fact and area without poor filler 
> in it. I have expanded that area with the help of the acetone and a 
> scotch bright pad. My question now whether to try and fill back in the 
> filler that's missing or strip it all out and start from scratch. Also, 
> when I used the acetone I must have had some silicone in the wood because 
> it did seem to want to repel the acetone on the surface. In other words, 
> small dots would dry faster than other areas of the wood surface kind of 
> a thing, Very descriptive wouldn't you say? :-) Anyway should I go for 
> stripping all the old filler out (how?) or just blend back in with some 
> new filler? Thanks for all your collective help!!!
>
>
>Greg Newell
>Greg's piano Forté
>mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
>
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Greg Newell
Greg's piano Forté
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net