I just took another look at the lid and I think that the lid is a red dyed mahogany with a dark walnut type poor filler with the stain mixed in if I had to guess. What I've uncovered, probably from using a scotch bright pad during the stripping process, is the reddish looking mahogany underneath not a sun bleached section like originally thought. As was pointed out the sun bleached section is common so I guess I was looking for that and incorrectly labeled the problem. Sorry if I through you off track! I'm still not sure how to deal with sun bleached wood should that present itself on another piano but that's a topic for the future. Greg Newell At 04:27 PM 2/17/2005, you wrote: >Greetings again listees, > I just had a chance to go out to the shop and try the acetone > suggestion and have discovered something. The lighter color that I > thought was a sun bleached area is in fact and area without poor filler > in it. I have expanded that area with the help of the acetone and a > scotch bright pad. My question now whether to try and fill back in the > filler that's missing or strip it all out and start from scratch. Also, > when I used the acetone I must have had some silicone in the wood because > it did seem to want to repel the acetone on the surface. In other words, > small dots would dry faster than other areas of the wood surface kind of > a thing, Very descriptive wouldn't you say? :-) Anyway should I go for > stripping all the old filler out (how?) or just blend back in with some > new filler? Thanks for all your collective help!!! > > >Greg Newell >Greg's piano Forté >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Greg Newell Greg's piano Forté mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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