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Revarnishing?
I managed to leave a wet "j" cloth on a polished table top with a bit of
pressure on it. It dried out, and when I removed it, it lifted the finish down almost to bare wood. It is more than just polish - there's some dark-tone varnish under the polish - and polishing it hasn't restored the finish. I don't want to strip the finish off the entire table, as there's a "gold" coloured strip around the table near the edge, under the finish. I don't know whether it's inlayed into the wood, or if it's part of the finish, and I don't want to find out. Can anyone recommend a good way to restore the finish? My current thought is to treat it like retouching a car's body panel around a rust spot - strip the affected area, and feather the strippage into the "good" surface, then colour-match the varnish, sand the overlap between old and new, and re-polish. Does this sound reasonable, and is there a better way. If you want to recommend products, please bear in mind that I am in the UK. -- SteveR (throw away the dustbin, send to stever@... instead) |