thicknessing off a finish

Cut the end off of one of the boards, and see how deep the finish has
penetrated. Do it to a couple of boards, and it should give you a good
idea, how much material you will lose.

Scape, sand, plane, chew....you still have to remove the same amount.

Cheers,

Andy

Micheal

Of course you can run them thru a planner, but the depth of the
stain/finish can vary by a good amount, so a setting that works for
most of the boards may leave finish behind on some

Try one and see, but with your rigid contraints it may be do-able in
this situation

John

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:22:58 -0500, Michael Press
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I've got 60' of 2x8, probably white oak, stained a walnut color. I
>want to completely remove the dark finish.
>
>(I've previously posted about whether to sand/scrape/strip, so I don't
>need to reopen that debate. BTW the consensus was scrape, but I'd
>rather just buy and mill new wood than spend the rest of my life
>scraping).
>
>My question is this - can I just run the boards through a planer (say
>the Delta 13" model)? How deep might the color go, by that I mean how
>much surface would likely have to be removed to eliminte the color
>(it's an issue because the wood has a stopped dado along one width of
>the board, with 1/8" lip on either side. I would have to retain the
>lip, at least 1/16", so the absolute max I could remove with a planer
>is 1/16" per side).
>
>Thanks,
>Michael

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:22:58 -0500, Michael Press
<[email protected]> wrote:


>My question is this - can I just run the boards through a planer (say
>the Delta 13" model)? How deep might the color go, by that I mean how
>much surface would likely have to be removed to eliminte the color

I've done this and it works fine. You won't know how deep the color
runs until you try a piece.

Barry