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Re: Stripping Polyshades off Tweed

1/30/2004 9:34 PM
Scott Wolfe	Re: Stripping Polyshades off Tweed Bruce remembers right. I had done my 5e3 cab in Minwax Polyshades Honey Pine. I had put a couple of coats on - thinned with mineral spirits. I then thought I wanted a little deeper color so I put a few more coats on without thinning. That's when the nightmares began. After the last coat, I put the cab outside on my patio, around dusk. When I came to check on it about an hour later, there were hundreds of black specks on it. I got closer and found that the cab had turned into a gnat magnet! Hundreds of little gnat bodies stuck to the still sticky polyshades, encased in amber. If that wasn't bad enough, my work sucked cuz the finish turned out too thick - sorta like a caramel apple. The finish was a thick coat on top of the tweed, instead of being absorbed into the tweed. It needed to come off quick. I didn't think a stripper would be safe on the tweed so - get this - I scraped off the finish with some dental tools. Some pieces came of like taking Levis size labels off new jeans. Most of the finish came of in tiny pieces, requiring several hours of work. Please don't follow my example! The cab came out OK, sorta looking like I first got it, but a little scuffed up here and there. I saw Bruce's new finished cabs at his shop - they looked great - so when I bought my new auxillary cab, I also bought a new 5e3 cab that's identically matched. They look great together. I still have my original 5e3 cab - if someone wants it, I can make a sweet deal!

1/30/2004 9:34 PM

Scott Wolfe

Re: Stripping Polyshades off Tweed

Bruce remembers right. I had done my 5e3 cab in Minwax Polyshades Honey Pine. I had put a couple of coats on - thinned with mineral spirits. I then thought I wanted a little deeper color so I put a few more coats on without thinning. That's when the nightmares began.

After the last coat, I put the cab outside on my patio, around dusk. When I came to check on it about an hour later, there were hundreds of black specks on it. I got closer and found that the cab had turned into a gnat magnet! Hundreds of little gnat bodies stuck to the still sticky polyshades, encased in amber. If that wasn't bad enough, my work sucked cuz the finish turned out too thick - sorta like a caramel apple. The finish was a thick coat on top of the tweed, instead of being absorbed into the tweed.

It needed to come off quick. I didn't think a stripper would be safe on the tweed so - get this - I scraped off the finish with some dental tools. Some pieces came of like taking Levis size labels off new jeans. Most of the finish came of in *tiny* pieces, requiring several hours of work. Please don't follow my example!

The cab came out OK, sorta looking like I first got it, but a little scuffed up here and there. I saw Bruce's new *finished* cabs at his shop - they looked great - so when I bought my new auxillary cab, I also bought a new 5e3 cab that's identically matched. They look great together.

I still have my original 5e3 cab - if someone wants it, I can make a sweet deal!

Replies:

bnwitt Scott, what kind of deal?B... -- 1/30/2004 10:11 PM
Owen Re: Stripping Polyshades/or remove Tweed -- 1/30/2004 10:18 PM