Stripper

[Greg Newell]

O.K. folks for those of you who got the wrong idea from the subject
line, your in the wrong forum. :~) Now, I must respond to the latest
post from Arthur Grudko from Starhawk Labs. I'm not sure what exactly he
is testing or how but I have what I think is much better than what the
ones he is testing here. I must however admit that there is some vapor
to contend with though not too bad.
    I was somewhat skeptical when I read Mr. Grudko's post mainly
because of the cost of a "good" stripper compound so I tried my own
little test. I have for refinishing in my shop a customers 20's vintage
A.B. Chase grand with an old varnish seemingly not too dissimilar to
what Mr. Grudko describes. I just went to grab the music desk glide
track and some of "my choice" chemical  and stripped it to bare wood in
5 , count them 5, minutes! Now I'm sure my testing wasn't nearly as
scientific as the lauded Mr. Grudko but ..... 5 MINUTES!
    Please do not misunderstand the nature of this post. I in no way
intend to "dis" Mr. Grudko in any way. I mentioned the name of the
product I found at Home Depot several weeks ago and I believe it must
have went ignored. For those of you who may be interested the brand is
Klean Strip and the product is called Klean Kutter Remover. It claims to
work (and seems to) on varnish, lacquer and shellac on all types of
wood. What I've seen it do is to literally dissolve the old finish in a
very short time and leave a very clean surface. I've just used an old
paint brush to continually apply the water like consistency chemical and
let the chemical drip back into a basin and before long the finish is
dripping off of the wood dissolved in the stripper.
    I'm no rocket scientist as the saying goes, but I would rather spend
a shorter amount of time at a much lower price than the alternative
suggested by Mr. Grudko. The last project I did I stripped the entire
lid of an average sized grand in about 20 minutes. Cool Stuff!!!

Greg Newell

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Greg Newell
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