M&H Refinishing?

[jolly roger]

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Hi Diane,
               You never know untill you actually completely strip them. Often
the legs and lyres are maple or birch.  You will have two choices, tinting
laquer to match, or re veneer.  
   Some of the ebonized stains are quite deep, and will restrict  you to a
dark
finish.  We just completed a Mahogany Heintzman that had previously been
ebonized.  It turned out to be a marathon effort to get a nice finish.
Due to
the spade legs, and the shape of the pedal lyre we opted for the tinting
laquer
approach. 
  Because of the depth of the black stain we were restricted to a darkish
brown
finish.  The first choice would have been to have some redish tone to the
colour.  But not a chance on this one.
  Explain the options, and the potential problems up front to the customer.  
It should keep you out of trouble.
 We even tried bleach, and alcohol to get as much of the ebony out of the wood
as possible.  It helped but the Mahogany wanted to keep the black stain.
Regards Roger 
 



At 01:43 PM 7/6/01 -0700, you wrote: 

>
> To those of you with knowledge about what's likely to be under all that
> ebonized finish--what are the chances that the M&H BB can be refinished in a
> wood tone?  I looked at it as well as I can and the only wood tone that
shows
> anywhere on that piano are the soundboard, bridges, block, action parts and
> keybed.  Everything else is ebonized and the customer wants it to be
> mahogany.
>
> TIA
>
> Diane
>
> Diane Hofstetter 
> 245-M Mount Hermon Rd.#343 
> Scotts Valley, CA 95066 
> ph 831-438-6222 
> fax 831-430-9741 
> dianepianotuner@hotmail.com 
>
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