<HTML>In a message dated 6/3/2002 3:27:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jgrassi@silverlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Brian, Let's hope the pot is being stirred this very moment.  I, too, have wished for more articles on this topic and have tried to encourage knowledgeable people, whenever possible, But, alas, not everyone who has the knowledge, cares to or is able to dedicate the time to prepare a Journal article.  Do I hear those pots stirring? </BLOCKQUOTE> (Sorry for the double post) I've got a hair-trigger mouse..... Maybe if you were to break the process down into the main stages of refinishing, and discussed only that stage until it was pretty well discussed out, say for a week, then the next week move to the next stage, and so on. At the end, there would be quite a pile of information that someone could refer to. For instance, start with the disassembly (that shouldn't take a week) then move to stripping, and discuss all the aspects of stripping before you move on to repairing the case, etc. In a week's worth of discussion, there is bound to be a wealth of information on stripping a piano,  and even some who have been doing it for a long long time might learn a few new tricks. Just a thought. Larry Fletcher Atlanta Chapter 301</HTML>