This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Mark, If you stain before filling grain, when sanding the dried grain filler, = how do you avoid sanding through the shellac and/or stain? I seem to be = grain-fill/stain challanged! Are you using water based grain filler? When you don't use grain filler, how many coats of top-coat do you find = is required to get a level finish - or do you live with the grain = depressions in this approach? Terry Farrell Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> wrote:=20 Mark, So during the finishing process is when you re-add the missing=20 filler and stain, right? Greg Newell Hi Greg - Yes. First I would use dyes to get the color I want, then seal them = with a wash coat of shellac. If I AM gonna use filler that would be = next, although oftentimes I don't use it. Then, if necessary, a few = very thin toning coats (tinted shellac, usually) on miscellaneous pieces = to even up the color ( and, BTW, this does NOT have to make the finish = look muddy, as you earlier suggested!), then on with the coats of = finish. Mark Potter At 06:06 AM 2/18/2005, you wrote: >Greg Newell wrote: > >When those of you who do, refinish a piano do you remove the filler = during >the stripping process? > >Hi Greg - It is not a "goal", per se, for me. Whatever volunteers = to=20 >come out during the stripping process, as well as the rinsing and=20 >scrubbing with maroon scotchbrite or #1 steel wool, is the extent = of my=20 >endeavors in this regard. I then sand with 150 - 220 and start the=20 >finishing process. > >No brass brushes for me... > >Mark Potter Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/22/2e/74/18/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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