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Removing the gold foil sight edge from a moulding.
Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 7:09 pm
by Not your average framer
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.
Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 7:37 pm
by osgood
Try 0000 steel wool!
Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 9:45 pm
by markw
Steel wool is good - the abrasive pads that you can use on stubborn pans also works well - green tangled nylony stuff. Remove before cutting.
Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 9:47 pm
by Moglet
What Ormond said.
Needless to say, try a piece of scrap first!
Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 10:31 pm
by Roboframer
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.
Posted: Thu 03 Apr, 2008 8:07 pm
by kev@frames
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
Posted: Thu 03 Apr, 2008 8:07 pm
by kev@frames
blasted keyboard! *Acetone