Current Project: Strip and Refinish 80's Pickled Oak

We are currently assisting a client with removal
of pickled oak finish from the late 1980's and
refinishing with our KCMA approved lacquer
from Sherwin-Williams. Kitchen is large
at 45+ doors and drawers. It is rare to see
this kind of quality White Oak species in
raised panel and we are fortunate to be
given this project. It takes one or two
of us approximately 45 min to 1 hour
of labour per door after orbital profiling,
Irwin rake chisel tooling of profiles and
final vacuum sanding with 11hp extraction.
We then do a final alcohol cleaning with
Methyl Hydrate to ensure that no residues
interfere with priming and finishing.

For those of you die hard clear coat finish fans
this finish is beginning to tack and fail and is not
as bombproof as you think, its at the point where
all the kitchen residues are beginning to stick to
doors and frames because it has finally decayed
from UV exposure.

Pics to follow once complete.

Great thanks to the Murphy's for the project !