Bring teak up from scratch

Aug 15, 2007 8 Replies

Hi all,



I have just obtained a really nice sounding pair of loudspeakers finished in teak, but with a few scratches and marks on them. What would you recommend to bring the finish back up and disguise the scratches?



Thanks



Mike


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for big gouges (requires sanding)

Liberon sticks for the smaller stuff.

Don't look at them. Concentrate on the listening.

Or, in modernspeak, get a life.

Mary

Teak is usually very lightly finished, just with oil at most. So pretty much ignore the scraches and just re-oil with a very light commercial finishing oil, even a non-drying oil. Liberon or Rustin's ranges from someone like

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Try it with a wipe of white spirit first - if they're visible because they're white more than because they're deep, then white spirit will hide them temporarily and oil will do it permanently.

If the scratches are really deep, re-sand. If they're impact dents, then you can try a wet teatowel over them and a steam iron (works better for less dense timbers though).

Don't use fillers or heavy film-forming finishes (varnishes, shellac etc.) on teak. Of course you can do this, but you're fundamentally changing the original finish and you're effectively starting from scratch in a whole new direction.

That's the first time I've ever heard "Become a HiFi nut" paraphrased _as_ "Get a life", but not the first time I've heard them in adjacent sentences....

What's up Mary - bad hair day?

Thanks Andy - I'll try the oil as the scratches are only on the surface giving them a bit of an unkempt look.

Regards

Mike

You misunderstood, I suspect. I'm suggesting that the sound is more important than the look of the thing - unless the poster sits watching the speakers which, to me, seems an odd thing to do.

Or perhaps I misunderstood you :-)

Mary

No, you're having a bad finish day/week/month ...

Mary

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