Removing the gold foil sight edge from a moulding.

Not your average framer · Wed 02 Apr, 2008 7:09 pm

An important customer has asked me to refinish a standard moulding to his requirements and this includes a tortoiseshell sight edge. It's not a difficult finish to do, but getting the gold foil off first is a bit of a worry.

If I sand paper it off of such a small sight edge lip, I feel sure that it will rub away enough wood to spoil the sight edge profile.

Any advice please?
Thanks in anticipation.

osgood · Post by **osgood** » Wed 02 Apr, 2008 7:37 pm

Try 0000 steel wool!

markw · Post by **markw** » Wed 02 Apr, 2008 9:45 pm

Steel wool is good - the abrasive pads that you can use on stubborn pans also works well - green tangled nylony stuff. Remove before cutting.

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Wed 02 Apr, 2008 9:47 pm

What Ormond said.

Needless to say, try a piece of scrap first!

Roboframer · Post by **Roboframer** » Wed 02 Apr, 2008 10:31 pm

0000 steel wool

Makes me go 'OOOOOOHHH'

On a serious note - dong!

Once I needed to frame something in ref 123 456 001, which had no gold sight edge.

Out of stock at the supplier and wouldn't you know I was short of about two inches from what I had in stock - evil thoughts - just reduce the mount width by half an inch or so - they'll never know. Get thee away!

But moulding ref 123 456 000 was identical but with the gold sight edge - and I had a shedful.

Ooooh grade wool saved the day - rubbed off the gold and applied a matching stain.

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Thu 03 Apr, 2008 8:07 pm

aceton (or use nail varnish remover).
Obviously test it on a piece of the other surface finish too.

for example, some mouldings that everyone knows: when we ran out of simons 300T, we often used acetone get the gold of some 296

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Thu 03 Apr, 2008 8:07 pm

blasted keyboard! *Acetone