Stripping Steinway Ebonized finish

[Jon Page]

At 03:45 PM 3/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Update on my question.  The piano should have had the milk based paint and 
>shellac,varnish finish used at the turn of the century.  Obviously at some 
>point the piano has been refinished in another manner.  It took some 
>checking but I spoke to Faust Piano's in New York.  They specialize in 
>refinishing Steinway's and have done so for many years.  Mr. Faust let me 
>know that thay had probably used a polyester based primer under high-build 
>laquer.  The stripper will take away the topcoat but won't touch the 
>primer underneath.  The only way he knows of removing it is with heat, a 
>scraper, and lot's of elbow grease. Anyone else?
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Sand it smooth and paint it black.