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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 175353, member: 25&quot;]Stripping baths bleach pine. I remember back when stripped pine was fashionable, I was doing some building renovations and Britain was fighting Argentina for the Falklands, I&#039;d take doors and things to the local stripper where they went into a large tank of hot caustic soda for a few hours, and they&#039;d come out looking like new wood after the paint remnants were hosed off. At the time everything from kitchen cupboards to painted pine longcase clocks was getting the treatment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Depending on the type of filler used it would vanish with the paint or stay in the nail-holes. Possibly the wood did not look exactly like new wood, but it was very clean wood.</p><p><br /></p><p>If painting and stripping wood as fashion dictates is still practiced where you are, the stripper is probably the reason for clean looking wood.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the current fashion for painting wooden furniture dies out, the local stripper with his big tank of caustic soda will once gain thrive.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems you can still find it here and there, here is one with a picture of some stripped pine.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.stokesleypinestripping.co.uk/pine-stripping/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stokesleypinestripping.co.uk/pine-stripping/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stokesleypinestripping.co.uk/pine-stripping/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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