{"id":3876,"date":"2022-12-21T01:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2022-12-23T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:35:51","slug":"metal-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/metal-stain\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal stain by Dick Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Removing metal stains on wood<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I recently had a large Mesquite salad bowl on the lathe and it was still wet.&nbsp; I was holding it with the chuck like Kirk DeHeer did during his platter class (a recess with the chuck jaws expanded to hold the bow).&nbsp; It was on the chuck for multiple days as I turned the bowl.&nbsp; When I was done and ready to take it off the chuck, I discovered that there were black spots on the bottom where the chuck jaws had been holding against the moist wood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The first thing I did was to put the bowl on a vacuum chuck and use my parting tool to try to peel off the black material.&nbsp; This did not work since the stain was deeper into the wood than I had anticipated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So, I went to the internet and searched for metal stains on\/in wood.&nbsp; After about 10 minutes of searching, I found a YouTube video of a person using the Bar Keepers Friend powder to remove the stains.&nbsp; The trick is to slightly moisten that stained area, sprinkle on the Bar Keepers Friend and use a toothbrush to lightly scrub the stain.&nbsp; After a couple of minutes let it dry and then wipe off with a dry rag or paper towel.&nbsp; The first application lightened the stain quite a bit so I did another application which made most of the stain disappear.&nbsp; After the third application the stain was completely gone.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>&nbsp;I was concerned what would happen when I applied the finish, however everything looks good.&nbsp; A little bit of Bar Keepers Friend really saved me.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","_et_gb_content_width":"640","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}