Q: What product can you suggest to remove hempseed oil and beeswax from a table top?
A: That depends on how long the hempseed oil was on, and whether or not it was mixed with beeswax or merely applied prior to it. If it was not on long, or if it was mixed with wax, you [...]
Q: I have a piano with what Kawai tells me is a polyurethane finish that was severely gouged. While I am a professional refinisher, I am at a loss as to how to burn-in the gouges and rub them out without having to re-coat. Is there a method to avoid the re-coating?
A: Probably not. I [...]
Q: My oak moldings and baseboards were varnished in 1988 and have yellowed. We would like to paint over them. What paint can I use without having to sand the vanish on all the trim boards?
A: Clean the baseboards by scrubbing with mineral spirits on gray nylon abrasive pads and wiping with paper shop towels. [...]
Q: I have a solid teak dinning table that has a very bad and large dark water stain and I would like to get it out. How do I go about doing that?
A: Be aware that not all black water stains will come out. However, those that do usually respond to oxalic acid, but that [...]
Q: Is there any barrier coat that will allow me to seal waterbased finish on a guitar that has been plagued with fisheye problems, then spray with waterbased over it?
A: I won’t say it is guaranteed, but spraying coat of Zinsser SealCoat usually does an excellent job of creating a waterbased friendly barrier coat. Incidentally, [...]
Q: I decided to spray Deft’s new waterborne acrylic wood finish for the top coat on a guitar. I am not happy with the outcome. I seem to get small fisheye no matter what I do. I am spraying at about 35 pounds and thinned it about 25%. There are no contaminants and I have [...]
Q: I have a can of Butchers Bowling Alley clear paste. Is this the same as automotive compound?
A: Nope, not even close. It is wax. You stopped short of the entire name of the product; Butcher’s Bowling Alley clear paste wax. As its name suggests, it is pure paste wax, which is a combination of [...]
Q: Our regularly used dining table was refinished in dark brown, high gloss lacquer and shows superficial surface scratches with use. Is this is normal?
A: It is for lacquer, which has only moderate scratch resistance. To make things worse, scratches show more readily on gloss surfaces. Lacquer does have good stain resistance, but not good [...]
Q: I just had an oak dining table refinished in a dark brown, shiny poly finish. It looks great, but only after two weeks I am seeing dozens of little superficial surface scratches everywhere. Do you think this is normal?
A: Fine scratches on the surface of a gloss finish are certainly common. Of course, [...]
Q: Can I put veneer over a top finished in polyester, or would it be better to try to sand it off an put the veneer on the substrate, or would making a new top be simpler?
A: Yes, yes, and yes. You can put veneer over polyester if you first rough the surface with 80 [...]
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