Subject: Re: Antique tiger wood secretary

From: [email-masked] (Michael John Hide)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 04:39:44 GMT

Tim Taylor wrote:

;I have an antique secretary that appears to made from tiger wood. I
;have heard of tiger wood maple. Are there any other types of wood
that
;have this tiger wood effect? Is it  maple the only type?
Unfortunately
;my father stained it with a dark walnut or early american stain many
;years ago. I am not sure what brand or type. If I use a stripper to
;remove the stain will the wood appear as light colored as unstained
;tiger maple? If not, is there anyway to remove the stain completely?
;What kind of stripper would be best to use for the stain removal.   

Check out the can but a few strippers do advertise that they will
remove stains . In any event after stripping and neutralizing clean up
with sand paper and apply oxalic acid this should remove most of the
stain . make sure to read the info on oxalic acid as I do believe it
is mildly poisionous,so you might need to wear gloves and do the
application outdoors . 
Even this will probably not get all of it but short of resurfacing it
wiill get most .                       mjh

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From: Bubba
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:57:46 GMT

What are you talking about???????

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 05:36:05 GMT, Tim Taylor wrote:

>I have an antique secretary that appears to made from tiger wood. I
>have heard of tiger wood maple. Are there any other types of wood that
>have this tiger wood effect? Is it  maple the only type? Unfortunately
>my father stained it with a dark walnut or early american stain many
>years ago. I am not sure what brand or type. If I use a stripper to
>remove the stain will the wood appear as light colored as unstained
>tiger maple? If not, is there anyway to remove the stain completely?
>What kind of stripper would be best to use for the stain removal.

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From: [email-masked] (Mike McDonald)
Date: 13 Feb 1997 03:09:16 GMT

>>What kind of stripper would be best to use for the stain removal.   

  Is that what tigerwood is? A variety of maple? The lumber yard has a sample
panel made out of "tigerwood" that looks gorgeous! That's what I'd really like
to build my computer desk out of but I couldn't find any of it around there.
They had zebrawood marked but no tigerwood. I'm going to have to go back and
check out the maples again.

  Mike McDonald
  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Klein)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 07:53:59 GMT

Some strippers advertise they will remove stains but some things we
call stains are really dyes.  Dyes and pigment stains are different
and act different.  Depends on the stain and you won't know till you
try.   If you are lucky someone used one of those nasty stain varnish
combinations.  If so most of the color will come off when you strip
it.

There are water wash strippers, which I do not use very often, and
solvent based strippers (methylene chloride, acetone, methanol,
toulene).   The best results I have found to accomplish your task is
stripping then rinising well with lacquer thinner to remove any
residue from the stripper. 

I then apply a solution of sodium hypochlorite.  You can buy this
already mixed at a 5% solution as Clorox, or better, go to a chemical
supply that sells pool supplies and get a stronger solution, say,
15%-20%.  Be careful, clothes and eyes don't like this stuff.

Oxalic acid is used as a bleaching agent also, but it works best on
iron stains and grey weathered wood, not so well for what you are
trying to do.

You have two woods refered to in common terms as tiger maple and tiger
oak.  There is no possibility of confusing the two.

I might say here that if you have never stripped a piece, practice on
something of little consequence first.

Hope this helps.
>;What kind of stripper would be best to use for the stain removal.   
Regards,

Robert Klein
Robert's Antiques and Restoration
2500 North T Street
Pensacola, FL  32505   USA

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:11:08 UNDEFINED

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Mike McDonald) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (Mike McDonald)
>Subject: Re: Antique tiger wood secretary
>Date: 13 Feb 1997 03:09:16 GMT

>panel made out of "tigerwood" that looks gorgeous!

'Tiger' is a figure oddity, not a wood.  Labeling something 'tigerwood' is 
just confusing, and probably done out of ignorance.  Other woods can have the 
tiger feature, just as they can be bird's-eye, flame, curly, etc.  Maple is 
just the most common wood to have these 'deformities'.

>That's what I'd really like

Tiger maple isn't going to be cheap.  I wouldn't use it for something as 
trendy as a computer desk, unless you use a traditional, multi-use design.  
Zebrawood is actually a species of tropical wood - real damn expensive.

Rich