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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 399125, member: 6444&quot;]Well, Kirk&#039;s book wasn&#039;t just about painted pieces - though it is true that many of them are. The chapter on &quot;ratty&quot; isn&#039;t just about removing finish either - it also talks about being very sensitive when making repairs or alterations or even removing evidence of earlier repairs (e.g. iron patches). His general approach is about accepting primitive furniture as it is, rather than trying to modify it into something &quot;better&quot; or different.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the relevant part of the article you posted is this:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So what I read him saying is that: yes, you may well want to clean up a piece of unpainted early furniture, but you need to do it sensitively IF you do it at all. You do not want to overclean it, and you certainly don&#039;t want to strip the original finish before applying a new layer on top. Cleaning is different from stripping, and removing later layers of added finish is different from removing original finish.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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