>List, My advice to Terry was to scrub out as much stain as possible with a Scotchbrite red pad or stiff bristle scrub brush dipped in denatured alcohol. I also advised trying a thin coat of Dyna 2 stripper. Either or both of these methods should remove all or most of the stain, as the stripper did on most of the case. If any stain is left after taking the above measures, light sanding should be sufficient to remove it. On figured mahogany veneers, it's sometimes difficult to tell when you've removed stain or you're trying to remove what turns out to be part of the figure. If you rub, sand or use chemicals on an area that doesn't appear to change, then you've been working on the inherent color and figure of the wood. A good trick is to load up a paper towel with alcohol and wet down the suspect area. While the alcohol is still wet, you can see what the wood really looks like. Arthur Grudko >Sorry, Stefan. He'll never sand to "bare wood" without >going through the veneer, and generally making a mess >out of it. DO NOT NEVER EVER ATTEMPT TO EVEN THE TONE >OF VENEERED WOOD BY SANDING !!!!!!!!! >You will sand through, end up with concavities, etc.. > >--- Stéphane Collin <collin.s@skynet.be> wrote: > >> Hello Terry. >> >> I would sand to bare wood (carefully) and restain. >> (But who am I ?) >> >> Best wishes. >> >> Stéphane Collin. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Farrell >> To: Mailing list for piano refinishers. ; >> pianotech@ptg.org >> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 6:39 PM >> Subject: Stain Stripping >> >> >> I stripped the finish off the inside of the case >> (rim) of a piano I am working on. I used a >> methylene-chloride-free product called Dyna-Strip 2, >> sold by Pianolac. One application of stripper left >> on overnight removed the finish completely - it >> literally fell off - no scraping required at all. >> I'm very happy with that aspect of the results. >> >> In some areas, hunks of the stripper slid down the >> face of the rim - it still removed the finish - but >> in those areas, less stain was removed. So now I >> have shadows of light and dark where there was an >> apparent difference in stain removal. >> >> What is the best way to address these stain >> shadows? >> >> Terry Farrell >> >> >> >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >
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