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   booch | Nov 20, 2002 04:13pm | #1

   Try to wash out the old finish/ stain with the solvent that thins the stain. Use paper towels to wring out the coloration.

   After that evaporates and it still is too dark try Oxcylic acid. Commonly available in powder form in most hardware stores. It will take out some of the coloration based on the concentration on that location of the wood.

   Understand you are going to be like the teeny bopper with multi color hair. You know the one I mean, this is the girl who dyed her hair at 16 and never saw the original color until she was 22. I'm afraid it will be ugly if you patchwork your way thru this. Your buddy violated the suggestion that you test the stain on an inconspicuous area. Use those scraps of wood to test stains, sanding technique, and final finishes. Often I run out of scraps for a particular project before the testing is done. This trial color removal is the same thing. Make a small FU piece like you have in the original then try to remove the stain / finish.

   PS. that is why I use Watco for my colorations. No matter how bad it looks you can always take thinner on a paper towel and back off the color. It never disappears but you cna throttle back to 30 % of the original tone with some elbow grease and thinner. I always cover the watco with Varathane Professional. Beautiful and impregnable.

   "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships-- and sealing wax--Of cabbages-- and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot-- and whether pigs have wings"
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   woodctr | Nov 20, 2002 05:05pm | #2

   Thanks Booch, we'll give a try.  Appreciate your help.

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   RW | Nov 28, 2002 06:51am | #3

   If you get to where you're going to try the Oxalic Acid and can't find it, around here the only place I finally rounded some up was a pharmacy.