Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

turpentine ??

Hey Marcus, I orderred mine friday afternoon. Had 2 of them in the shopping cart ,& had a bit of a look around to see if anything else took my fancy,& early evening I went to the checkout bin & the price went up to 106.99 , like you said. Of course the insurance & handing went up ,as did the postage...

Hi Paul , Good to see you've poked your head in.(we're practably neighbours.) I've been lurking around for ages. When I've scraped the bindings from either top & back,I did like kiwigeo, Plus I put some tape over the edge & at the end of the scraper so that one end of the cutting edge is raised & it...

Good link Puff.
I've used it a fair bit & when I've wiped it with water afterwoods I've added a little metho ,to speed up the evaporation & used a hair drier to speed it up a bit . It dries pretty quickly that way.- not to scary

Looking at my above post .Rust isn't the same as ferrous sulphate. I shouldn,t post when I'm tired. I do believe the use of acid to remove tannin stains & oxalic to clean up old oxidised wood to be correct . I know it works to reverse the green tinge too. _________________ " its never too late to be...

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 7:22 pm Post subject: Hi . Have you tried oxallic or diluted batery acid. I know that if you have used the tannin & ferrous sulphate ,or rust ,method to dye wood black ,or grey , then any acid with a pH factor below 7 will bleach the wood back to it's original color. A lot o...