Jarviser
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I have a 1980 repro dining table (Buckingham Productions/Larkswood)which has a top which seems to have wood lipping fixed around a manmade top, and veneered all over in oak. The lipping has moved and telegraphed through the veneer.
It is currently finished in a tudor oak coloured cellulose lacquer, with a clear lacquer topcoat. The manufacturers gave me some of the polish once - real peardrops lung-rot stuff. Any chips, including where the veneer has moved, reveal white oak, so I don't think it has soaked in much.
I want to strip the lacquer, reduce the size of the top, fit new lippings flush with the veneer, stain almost as dark and repolish in Danish Oil.
Advice sought :-
- Should I use paint stripper, or sand it off, or what else to leave a veneer that will stain well?
- Any tips how to trim the lippings flush with the veneer - hand plane, or router trimming bit, or belt sander?
No pressure, but the table up til now has been the pride and joy of SWMBO.
It is currently finished in a tudor oak coloured cellulose lacquer, with a clear lacquer topcoat. The manufacturers gave me some of the polish once - real peardrops lung-rot stuff. Any chips, including where the veneer has moved, reveal white oak, so I don't think it has soaked in much.
I want to strip the lacquer, reduce the size of the top, fit new lippings flush with the veneer, stain almost as dark and repolish in Danish Oil.
Advice sought :-
- Should I use paint stripper, or sand it off, or what else to leave a veneer that will stain well?
- Any tips how to trim the lippings flush with the veneer - hand plane, or router trimming bit, or belt sander?
No pressure, but the table up til now has been the pride and joy of SWMBO.