This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dean May queried: "I am looking at refinishing a 6 foot Baldwin, about = 50 years old. It has a satin ebony finish that has bad water damage on the lid and side. I'm = not sure if the finish is original or not. It is apparent that it is = mahogany in the areas of the water damage. Can anyone tell me if the odds are good for it to be all mahogany? I = have a customer who wants it but in a natural wood finish. Will I get myself = into trouble to convert it to a natural wood finish?" Many thanks, Dean, There's really no way to tell, until you've stripped the whole thing. = Many times, different veneers were used on an Ebony piano. It's what I = call a "Friday Piano". I'm sure you've seen an upright with a cacophy of = woods, usually when the client does his/her own refinishing.<G> (When Friday rolled around, they had all these mismatched case = parts...so, Black it was!) The second problem you may have is getting all of the "black" out of the = wood pores. This can be a real bear on some porous woods, like mahogany. Regards, Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3a/7a/da/d9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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