Post #39627 by Basement Kahuna on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 10:14 AM

You can re-amalgamate the finish by sort of "melting" it with denatured alcohol and a fine steel wool pad or a good bristle paint brush, but I'd say if you do one spot do the whole thing. Watch for brush marks. What this does is essentially "re-melt" the lacquers back to liquid form, after which (only when thoroughly dry) you should apply orange or lemon oil, let dry then Bre-Wax. Both of mine are carefully refinished to reflect their original look and look cherry good; the finish on those tikis had degraded mainly due to millions of patting and rubbing hands with their oils and perspiration, which actually can have a caustic effect on modern (I.E. 1950's) finishes.