Hi there
I have spent 18 months building a table to match chairs and bureau we bought on a holiday once.
It is qld maple, and I have got some great advice from the forum about colour matching because I wanted to match the colour. And i have done so - remarkably, using F&W Tint, then Shellac... and my final coat was to be old-school varnish (terps based - so it darkened it a bit more and stayed with the original...)
And the table looks pretty great (thanks to Nikko in Alice Spring for band saw use, and lots of help from others.) :U
But at the last I have stuffed up.
The varnish had some bubbles on the top. I thought I might be able to smooth them out (it was 3/4 dry by the time i realised) using so terps. Bad idea. I basically buggered up the finish.
So then I thought I'd sand... another bad idea (maybe not dry enough).
It seems to me that at the very last I am in a big mess.
I reckon I need to get rid of the varnish and try again but... here comes the questions...
1. How can I do that best? Bunnings bloke suggested heat - I did a test peice but ... hmm... not convinced
2. Stripper?
3. Sanding??
The issue is is that I don't want to bugger up the Shellac or the tint...
At the end of the day I could fully sand back and build from the bottom - I know the mixes and have learnt the trick to get to the colour, but i would really prefer not to.
Before I stuff it up even more i would love some advice.
I have cross posted this on the general forum too (I hope that's not bad manners!)
Many thanks for any ideas.
John
Alice Springs
I have spent 18 months building a table to match chairs and bureau we bought on a holiday once.
It is qld maple, and I have got some great advice from the forum about colour matching because I wanted to match the colour. And i have done so - remarkably, using F&W Tint, then Shellac... and my final coat was to be old-school varnish (terps based - so it darkened it a bit more and stayed with the original...)
And the table looks pretty great (thanks to Nikko in Alice Spring for band saw use, and lots of help from others.) :U
But at the last I have stuffed up.
The varnish had some bubbles on the top. I thought I might be able to smooth them out (it was 3/4 dry by the time i realised) using so terps. Bad idea. I basically buggered up the finish.
So then I thought I'd sand... another bad idea (maybe not dry enough).
It seems to me that at the very last I am in a big mess.
I reckon I need to get rid of the varnish and try again but... here comes the questions...
1. How can I do that best? Bunnings bloke suggested heat - I did a test peice but ... hmm... not convinced
2. Stripper?
3. Sanding??
The issue is is that I don't want to bugger up the Shellac or the tint...
At the end of the day I could fully sand back and build from the bottom - I know the mixes and have learnt the trick to get to the colour, but i would really prefer not to.
Before I stuff it up even more i would love some advice.
I have cross posted this on the general forum too (I hope that's not bad manners!)
Many thanks for any ideas.
John
Alice Springs
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