I mentioned before that at some point someone had painted the main bulkhead. I hate this look and a while back decided that I would strip it. This left me with an interesting issue. I was unable to get the paint out of the grain. We spent many hours trying to discover a secret as to how to do this without ruining the teak. From brass wool to toothbrushes nothing worked. We resigned ourselves to having to add a new layer of veneer.
Yesterday I decided that since we were going to re veneer it there was no worry of damaging it so I have it one last attempt with the sander. 6 hours later I managed to remove 95% of the paint from the grain and we have now saved the original veneer. Although it is not perfect I am pleased that we could save it.
