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Offline ronbeaux

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Face lift for the B3
« on: August 02, 2009, 12:39:02 PM »
Spent some time this weekend giving my little friend a face lift this weekend. Mystery wood lay beneath the industrial strength stuff it came with.

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Offline mjb108

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RE: Face lift for the B3
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2009, 01:12:26 PM »
Now that wood has some character!

Did you sand the forestock thinner to get rid of the finger grooves?
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Re: Face lift for the B3
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2009, 02:03:08 PM »
now that is sweet Ron. thanks for sharing..
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RE: Face lift for the B3
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2009, 02:18:09 PM »
This one didn't have the finger grooves and I'm glad!! It was a lot of sanding as it was.
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RE: Face lift for the B3
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2009, 11:33:16 PM »
Looks great.  I hate the finger grooves and the accompanying fat forestock - never saw one like yours.  

After the refinishing, yours is a much more "honest" B3.  She shows her heritage!  Definitely a keeper.
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That's nice, Ron,
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2009, 01:38:51 AM »
Did you use a laquer thinner, or did you just sand until your shoulders were numb? :)
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Re: Face lift for the B3
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2009, 09:00:28 AM »
I love it Ron, Some folks prefer uniformed grain,..but I like the uneven look of it. Tha same reason I used B/C grade oak hardwood on my kitchen floor!!! Pergo is boring!!!!! LOL's tjk
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Re: Face lift for the B3
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2009, 09:07:33 AM »
I did my B3 like that. As a pointer what I did was wrapped it in plastic after applying paint stripper and left it set a few days. The stripper did not dry out that way and had time to work.
Made the job much easier....
Nice job there and mine looks like that now also..... Frank
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RE: That's nice, Ron,
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2009, 09:37:04 AM »
I used this gel coat stripper that I had to leave on for 2 hours and repeat several times to get the outer layer off. The stuff is called 'BIX Original Varnish and Stain Stripper.' It glazes over and keeps itself from drying out. Just touch up the dry looking spots every now and then. All of a sudden it will blister up and you know it's working. Then I used vinegar and steel wool to lift all of the brown stain from the wood. If it was a red based stain I would have used bleach. I'm no expert at this, I read it on the can of stripper.......

Then I sanded until my shoulders were numb!!!

Top coated with fast drying polyurathane and gave it several coats. I used a foam brush for the outer coats and it has some streaks in it but next weekend I'm gonna hit it again with super fine sand paper and top coat it again with a better brush. I may thin the polyurathane with some acetone to get a thinner product with less chanch of making streaks.

Then again, I may just run a tin of pellets through it and call it good.......
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