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ANTIQUE FURNITURE RESTORATION DISCUSSION BOARD
Posted By: Lee <flsimons@shaw.ca> (px2ht.ok.shawcable.net)
Date: 9/7/2 14:25
Oh horrors, what have I done? When I was stripping the coats of paint off of my very old junky pine hutch-thing, there was a surprise for me (and I think I blew it). The drawers stripped fine. As did the hutch part. Only, there is a cupboard door that, when I went to strip it down, turned out to be a different wood--it was "plywood" with a lumber core (if that makes any sense)--I think birch or something--but the lumber core does seem to date it. I assumed the door was not the original door so I made a replacement although I kept the old one--well, under the obvious coats of paint, there was this other hard white kind of paint that would turn into a gluey mess when stripper applied. It was nearly impossible to sand from the door and I thought it was just some kind of hard old paint...could it have been this milk paint and if so, what does that imply? Have I really screwed up (even though my piece is rather beautiful with it's new shellac finish (thanks to Jim's help earlier here). Tell me about this milk paint stuff? So many thanks to you all for bearing with me....
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