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Author: haberc
Date: 2007-03-12 22:45
I have just acquired a Selmer Signet Special with an X above the Selmer insignia on the top joint. It's wood but the wood has been coated almost like a shellac shiny coating. I'd love to clean it up and get rid of that coating. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-03-13 01:24
Congrats [possibly], I have restored a similar "golden oldie" Selmer Signet 100, ser. # 224544 and find it to be a good player, mellow [dark?] tone character. I suggest you ask what/who you can about it's history and what the coating is, perhaps a skilled woodwind repairer could determine it and possibly would remove it at reasonable cost. Otherwise, if it were mine, I'd test it first with a drop or so of bore oil so see if it would work. Second, I'd test it using charcoal fire-starter fluid [clean aliphatic hydrocarbons between gasoline and jet fuel]. lf no luck, prob. a "harsher" solvent would be needed, which might harm the wood body and it's preservative oils. You may get a lot of differing opinions, so OTHERS, please help. Luck, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: saxhorn4
Date: 2007-03-15 00:10
That shiny stuff is lacquer...not sure why they did that but it was done at the factory....the problem with it. is in using a liquid lacquer strip ,the wood would be affected i.e. Bubbly wood grain, that type of thing. sorry can't help! One procedure i do know that does'nt work is. Murphy's oil soap in my ultra sonic cleaner......It does a nice job on the wood ,but does not remove the lacquer! aaargh!!
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Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2007-03-15 00:49
I have used my own formulation of stripper but the commercial limonlene based (orange extract) strippers are more gentle IME than the organic solvent based lacquer strippers. You of course must remove all the keywork. After stripping the wood it should be washed with a oil based detergent, let dry, and then oiled with a quality woodwind oil.
L. Omar Henderson
www.doctorsprod.com
Post Edited (2007-03-15 00:51)
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