general finishing question

[Terry]

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Hi Mark,

If you stain before filling grain, when sanding the dried grain filler, =
how do you avoid sanding through the shellac and/or stain? I seem to be =
grain-fill/stain challanged! Are you using water based grain filler?

When you don't use grain filler, how many coats of top-coat do you find =
is required to get a level finish - or do you live with the grain =
depressions in this approach?

Terry Farrell


  Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> wrote:=20
    Mark,
    So during the finishing process is when you re-add the missing=20
    filler and stain, right?

    Greg Newell

    Hi Greg -

    Yes.  First I would use dyes to get the color I want, then seal them =
with a wash coat of shellac.  If I AM gonna use filler that would be =
next, although oftentimes I don't use it.  Then, if necessary, a few =
very thin toning coats (tinted shellac, usually) on miscellaneous pieces =
to even up the color ( and, BTW, this does NOT have to make the finish =
look muddy, as you earlier suggested!), then on with the coats of =
finish.

    Mark Potter


    At 06:06 AM 2/18/2005, you wrote:
    >Greg Newell wrote:
    >
    >When those of you who do, refinish a piano do you remove the filler =
during
    >the stripping process?
    >
    >Hi Greg - It is not a "goal", per se, for me. Whatever volunteers =
to=20
    >come out during the stripping process, as well as the rinsing and=20
    >scrubbing with maroon scotchbrite or #1 steel wool, is the extent =
of my=20
    >endeavors in this regard. I then sand with 150 - 220 and start the=20
    >finishing process.
    >
    >No brass brushes for me...
    >
    >Mark Potter

    Greg Newell
    Greg's piano Fort=E9
    mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20


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