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Hiya Frugal Luckily I can tune myself. I'm tight as hell so taught myself a few years back. You're right about the digitals though - they're superb value. However it's just never the same as the real thing. I've checked out some £10k+ digitals that use laser strings and they're amazing, but...

Hi Ike Ah, leave it dry after white spirit? Excellent timing cos I was jst about to sand straight after putting it on. So far this Nirtomores stuff has been a total blessing. I've got a black bag half full of brown crud that would have ended up around the garden, in my lungs or inside the...

As I type, Nitromores is bubbling away on my old piano. I have to do NOTHING. I sit here, then scrape it off. No lead dust, no accidentally sanding off bits that matter, no having to move a piano OUTSIDE so I don't get dust on everything - I can just do the work next to the french doors (wide...

He he - i'll watch my step from now on!

That explains why the legs wouldn't moooove! Sorry :P

Ewwwwwww!!!!!!! Strong as hell though!

Oh right, so definitely NO finish at all on the bits to be joined? I was wondering bout that one. I've sanded the glue off - goodness knows what was in 75 year old glue!! Thanks a lot, Mark

Sounds like I could manage that. What does this 'raise the grain' thing mean? I've heard it a few times. Cheers, Mark

Great - that was what I was thinking - so any spaces can be sorted afterwards. I even took photos beforehand JUST in case I forgot how it fitted back together. Which I have done, and now I can't see the camera so i'll start with all the legs pointing down and work up!!! Do you think it would...

Hi Roger That's interesting. It looks cheaper to buy the soda and paste. What sort of ratio should I mix that at? The only thing i'd be worried about is something like Nitromars would come with instructions and be designed for the use. What do you think? I'd welcome comments from anyone who...

Hi guys Firstly, thanks for the warm welcome to the site. I only wish i'd found it BEFORE I went headlong into a piano restoration involving large amounts of wood (and leaded varnish), without knowing anything about woodwork. I've two questions and I hope it's ok with the moderators if I post...

This is indeed a cool forum. It's a pleasure to hear from nice people who openly share their experiences and give good advice. I checked out a few other forums beforehand and a few actually have quite bitchy comments on them. Quite how you can 'bitch' about wood is beyond me so i'm really...

Hi Steve Thanks for the welcome. It's great to meet someone else who's tried restoring a piano. I took off all the panels I could and finished them all separately, just so I could experiment and make mistakes on the bits that won't be seen. I've read up on extraction methods and the bag on my...

Hi guys I'm brand new so hope i'm doing this right. I'd like to know whether chemical paint stripper would be effective at stripping layers of varnish (or whatever it is exactly) from a 75 year old piano. I was given the piano for free so there aren't too many consequences if it doesn't work...