Since ill be using them out in the sticks I thought why not ask this particular dumb question here....
Last week I acquired for £3.95 a old Daler sketching easel, it's in basically good condition but I like to clean up any tools I get second hand before I start using them. It's made from beech and I've used the same to replace one of the blocks that guides the legs when they are extended which had fallen off. Before I attack it with sandpaper, before oiling it is there're any solvent that will get rid of the watercolour stains? I will try a selection but thought I'd ask here before I started splashing them around. If I can avoid scrubbing it with water ( it's quite thin in sections) I'd prefer not to.
And today I popped into the villages one charity shop and low and behold just brought in and not yet priced up was a even nicer ash ( i think) Daler-Rowney easel that doesn't look used apart from its missing a 1/2" rubber ferrule I can easily replace. When asked they made up a price of £3 so I snapped that up as well! I still want to clean up the first one as I hope one of the others will want to join in
ATB
Tom
Last week I acquired for £3.95 a old Daler sketching easel, it's in basically good condition but I like to clean up any tools I get second hand before I start using them. It's made from beech and I've used the same to replace one of the blocks that guides the legs when they are extended which had fallen off. Before I attack it with sandpaper, before oiling it is there're any solvent that will get rid of the watercolour stains? I will try a selection but thought I'd ask here before I started splashing them around. If I can avoid scrubbing it with water ( it's quite thin in sections) I'd prefer not to.
And today I popped into the villages one charity shop and low and behold just brought in and not yet priced up was a even nicer ash ( i think) Daler-Rowney easel that doesn't look used apart from its missing a 1/2" rubber ferrule I can easily replace. When asked they made up a price of £3 so I snapped that up as well! I still want to clean up the first one as I hope one of the others will want to join in
ATB
Tom