Faux Finish

[Tony Marsico]

Hi,
I think if it were me and I wanted to go back to the original paint I
would strip all I could off of it washing the last coat down with
laquer thinner since the stripper doesn't seem to be touching it
anyway. Then I'd find a very good furniture touch up guy to fix up the
places that were bad. Or you might ask some refinishers out of the
yellow pages who they know that can do wood graining very well.
I was once on the movie set of the remake of "Lolita", available at
your local Blockbuster. (My job was to make sure the Ampico player
grand piano at the end of the movie played all the way through the
scenes with no problems.) It was shot at the Chinca Penn (forgot how
to spell that but that's what it sounds like) plantation in
Riedsville, N.C. The hall way that the actor who plays Quigley runs
down was originally painted a solid green. They had the hall way
painted in wood grain by a set artist. I know wood but accepted it as
natural until they pointed it out to me. And even then had to put my
nose right up on it to see that it was really paint. It's too bad the
hallway was darkened in the movie for that scene or you could
appreciate it better.
So there are people who can still do that kind of thing.
Tony