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 The Stain that wouldn't budge.
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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 12:27:33 AM on 29 August 2017.
Vintage Pete's avatar
 Location: Albury, NSW
 Member since 1 May 2016
 Member #: 1919
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Hi All,
Im leaving a note here because I know some of you guys do restore some furniture or Cabinets from time too time and this particular problem I'm about to mention is worth remembering if your unfortunate enough to come across it.
At the moment I'm restoring some very rare chairs 1951 to 57 by Gio Ponti, They are a hand built chairs mostly made from Teak or Rosewood. He had this reputation as one of the best hand craftsman in that era for very expensive high end hand crafted chairs.
Anyway , like many of the old finishes they were done by guys who make up their own rules about what to stain with and what clear tops to put on .
These chairs need to be completely stripped back to bare timber to re stain and re finish.
But guess what ? nothing will remove the stain ,because he has used his own ideas about staining and the base could be anything.
Berry? Paint? Chalk? Who knows.
Very rarely do I come across this problem , but on 1930s items during the depression they also used this methods and this is why I'm telling you guys here.
They would use berry juice to stain it and chalk paint to fill the grain.
Well stripper will not remove that in a million years and no it cant be sanded off either.
So if you have a old cabinet and your struggling with it and cant get that finish off, it maybe this old horrible practice.

Heres the formula to get it off.
Paint strip top coat
Then white spirit.
Then metho.
Then Oxalic
Then metho twice
Then house hold bleach
Then metho.
Now its back to bare wood !
Its a dog of a thing ! But it is out there and you just might have it on your project and your pulling your hair out trying to fix it !
Pete


 
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