refinishing caned furniture
Scott Blystone
without destroying the caning which is in fine shape? My guess is most
stripper will eat the cane or at least partially remove the varnish on the
cane. How to get to the wood under the edge of the cane? The caning is
hand done so a replacement seat would cost money - more than the project is
worth to me. Also the caned seat is perfectly round so I would think this
would cost even more. Thanks for suggestions of strippers which don't
damage cane. I have used Stypeeze (sp?) in the past. Will this eat cane?
Scott D. Blystone, Ph.D.
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Tom Walley
withou replacing the cane.
About 25 years ago when I was in high school, I refinished some caned
chairs that had been sitting in my parents barn forever. I got a
pamphlet from Penn State (the college), department of something or other
that was on caning. The procedure is probably described in many books.
The materials are widely available; I got mine by mail-order. I found
caning to be quite easy and the materials inexpensive. The caned seat
is still holding up. A little research should turn up the names of
instruction books and a source for materials.
- Tom Walley
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Kathy Williams
: Anyone have a tip on stripping chestnut chairs with a dark stain and shellac
: without destroying the caning which is in fine shape? My guess is most
: stripper will eat the cane or at least partially remove the varnish on the
: cane. How to get to the wood under the edge of the cane? The caning is
: hand done so a replacement seat would cost money - more than the project is
: worth to me. Also the caned seat is perfectly round so I would think this
: would cost even more. Thanks for suggestions of strippers which don't
: damage cane. I have used Stypeeze (sp?) in the past. Will this eat cane?
: Scott D. Blystone, Ph.D.
In general, you are probably SOL unless you want to replace the cane,
revarnish the cane, or
paint the whole thing. If it is machine-woven cane, (identified by a groove
at the edge of the caned sections with a long spline pounded and glued into
the groove) then replacement is fairly easy. If it is hand-woven, (there
are little holes all around the edge of the caned sections, and the cane
goeis through the holes) then that will require a little more practice.
Don't think the strippers will eat the cane, (it's wood, after all) but they
will certainly make a mess of the varnish on the cane, and I would think
it'll be hard to get the goo off the cane. Probably easier to recane.
Also, the stripper may eat the glue used to hold down the spline, if it
uses a spline. Assuming they glued it; I'm not sure that was always the
case.
Machine woven cane doesn't really cost that much, and the raw materials for
hand caning are even less. You're more
likely to have a problem with a 'minimum order' amount.
Glenn Ponder
Thomas Gauldin
>Scott Blystone (blys...@VISAR.WUSTL.EDU) wrote:
>: Anyone have a tip on stripping chestnut chairs with a dark stain and shellac
>: without destroying the caning which is in fine shape? My guess is most
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I have removed old varnish from cane using normal strippers, but by washing
them off with TSP and water and using a stiff scrub brush to remove the old
varnish. The TSP or Tide and water helps to remove the
stripper/varnish/sludge from the cane and the stiff brushing also helps. I
know that the surface will still have just enough of a remainder on it that
staining with a penetrating stain is about impossible, but if you like the
look of the stripped cane, just sand the wood around the caned area and
refinish away! The soap/brush will reach into the voids around the caned
seat and will do just fine to remove the old finish also.
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