Un-Doing What Ane Did {How To Strip Pigment From Brass}

Hey at that topographic point friends! I experience similar things are in conclusion getting dorsum to some marking of normal to a greater extent than or less here, fifty-fifty inwards the midst of summertime craziness. Thanks for sticking alongside me through vacation, invitee posts, & link parties... I'm ready to instruct dorsum to some projection talk. Does that audio o.k.?

So...several years agone earlier brass was dorsum inwards style, I picked upwardly this fantastic tray for a few dollars at a thrift store, too promptly spray painted it black. Don't demand heed the dust, I pulled it out of storage.

Fast forwards a few years to today when brass is all the rage again, too I've seen that tray on some pop dwelling theatre decor sites for a pretty penny. So what's a daughter to create who has realized the error of her ways? After confirming alongside my dad-who-knows-everything that it would live on ok, I decided to strip the pigment off.

It couldn't create got been easier! I used this:

and inside merely a few minutes the pigment was already bubbling up, ready to come upwardly off. And merely FYI, don't seek spreading stripper to a greater extent than or less on your slice alongside a foam brush. It volition swallow your brush inwards most ii seconds, trust me. Use a super inexpensive fight or regular bristle brush.

When the pigment was all bubbly too loose, I used the hose to rinse it spell I rubbed lightly alongside a slice of real fine steel wool, merely to instruct all of the nooks too crannies clean.

Here it is all cleaned off! Now I yell back why I painted it...it wasn't inwards the best condition.

I didn't intend that it would completely smoothen up, but I've said it earlier and I'll say you lot again, BAR KEEPER'S FRIEND is awesome for brass! With some H2O too a low-cal scrub it fifty-fifty cleaned off the spots that I idea were permanently discolored.