Gary - This One Is For You
That’s right; I’m calling down the thunder.
Here are some pictures of the woodwork in the Devil Queen’s foyer.
From what I can tell, the door trim and wainscoting are shellacked; rubbing it with alcohol and steel wool strips through the finish [the spot above is where I conducted my little experiement].
As I’ve mentioned before, a lot of the wood isn’t in the greatest shape. We will probably end up painting all of it. Blasphemy, I know.
Now, if I’ve read your excellent series of shellac posts (thank you by the way) correctly, I don’t necessarily have to strip all of the shellac off in order to paint over it. I should be able to scrape off the bits that are flaking off, rub the remainder down with alcohol to smooth the surface, sand, and paint over it. Or, am I wrong?
Please let me know. I sick of looking at this. It must go. Soon.
Here are some pictures of the woodwork in the Devil Queen’s foyer.
From what I can tell, the door trim and wainscoting are shellacked; rubbing it with alcohol and steel wool strips through the finish [the spot above is where I conducted my little experiement].
As I’ve mentioned before, a lot of the wood isn’t in the greatest shape. We will probably end up painting all of it. Blasphemy, I know.Now, if I’ve read your excellent series of shellac posts (thank you by the way) correctly, I don’t necessarily have to strip all of the shellac off in order to paint over it. I should be able to scrape off the bits that are flaking off, rub the remainder down with alcohol to smooth the surface, sand, and paint over it. Or, am I wrong?
Please let me know. I sick of looking at this. It must go. Soon.
posted by John | 3:37 AM
6 Comments:
Hi,
I came from Japan,
Your site was interesting,
See you again,
That looks like dyed shellac over paint and the shellac has come off where there was water damage! Rub it with coarse steel wool and alcohol wipe up the goop. Let dry and then sand with 150 or 80 grit sand paper. You can always paint it brown and put three coats of shellac over it to make it look like wood again!
Why is it so white? My woodwork had a lot of gouges and scratches. I mixed up some some different stains and went over it with one of those sponge paint brushes with the stain then shallacked. The new shallac melted and blended with the old. Maybe you could do the same with the scratched parts. On those big white areas clean them up with the denatured on a rag and just re-shallac. If you sand it first it might lighten up the un shallacked spots too much. Then again if they are still white when you clean them you could always use the stain. IF you want I will look up the combination of the 3 stains I used and post them here for you. I usually check your blog every day so just let me know.
Thanks everyone!
Karen,
I'm not sure why it's white. Gary may be right and it was painted at some point and then shellaced over. Or, my second guess would be that the wood has aged poorly (these areas were slowly soaked with over a 10 year period by a leaky roof). In any case, I'd love to know what stains you used for your wood work.
John,
Here is that stain combination that I mentioned. It is a mixture of three Minwax stains (2 parts red mahogany, 2parts colonial maple, 3parts natural)This will give you an aged wood tone that the wood would have had from aging orange shellac. Let the stain dry 48 hours and then shallac. Try it on a small area and let us all know if it works for you.
Karen, thanks!
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