Violin Forum/Message Board

Jack H. · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang

Used the wrong ground.....
Mirecourt violin, vary nice, was in 14 pieces when I got it, needed a new bass bar, graduations, worm damage, and putting back together
It is all in one piece including a new rib, strung it up before finishing the rib and it sounds great.
Went to finish the ribs and grabbed the wron bottle and did not read, put a nice yellow stain on instead of the Imprimatura Dorata.

Any clues on how to get this lovely yellow off and get the ID on...
Am I going ot have to scrape??

J

Chet Bishop · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject:

Is it an alcohol-base, water-base, or oil-type stain?

Any chance you can (mostly) wash it out with the appropriate solvent? If not, I still would not scrape it. Yellow won't hurt the sound, scraping might. You might test on a piece of scrap to see how deep the stain might have gone, but my guess is that it would be deeper than you would want to scrape.

Yellow can be dimmed toward brown with a judicious application of purple.

One other possibility would be Citri-solv, a citrus-based paint-remover. I don't like it, but I have used it on two occasions, and it did remove all the finish, down to bare wood, without damaging the wood. (We are talking last-resort, here...)

Jeffrey Holmes · Member Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 90 Location: Ann Arbor

I'd opt for a single-malt solvent for the technician before proceeding. Smile

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Jack H. · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject:

jessupe goldastini · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject:

you should be feeling much more "stable" now......:}

Jack H. · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: