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Old 07-15-2009, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by newhallone View Post
As a Christmas gift my good ol Mom is going to strip and refinish this and my chairside zenith. I just talked with her on the phone and she said it looks like it was originally painted brown. And the grain is not all that attractive. So it looks like I am going to paint it black. Any thoughts on what I should go with? I could use Imron. It's tough. Something more original would be lacquer. But try to get nitrocellulose like they had back then. It's expensive and allegedly bad for us
Why not use modern lacquer? It's widely available and looks a lot better than Imron (polyurethane).
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