stripping question

[Lhadeh at wmconnect.com]

Greg,

You have a good point.  It is similar to using tobacco  --  which is better, 
to smoke or to chew?  And I have no definite answer, except it is better to do 
neither.

The same with stripping.  I find that I can usually soften the finish enough 
for scraping without getting to the smoking point.  Sometimes I go past that 
point and it smokes.  I don't believe there is such a thing as a perfect way to 
do this in a home workshop setting.

So I normally do this outdoors under a shed with the wind blowing through.  
If there's no wind, I provide it artificially.  Just makes sense.  There are 
also places and pieces that can't be readily stripped this way.  And like any 
mechanical method it is not absolute, i.e., there are spots that still need more 
work.  I tend toward the sandpaper method for the cleanup, but if the veneer 
is very thin, I'll resort to a chemical stripper.  I'm definitely not a purist.

It is like any other trick in your bag of methods.  If it is the best one for 
the job, use it.  If not, pull out another trick.  This is just the method 
that I try first, for a job that I don't particularly relish.

Loren Hedahl



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