January 02, 2005

The Six-Month Project

Okay, don't be afraid--everythings all copasetic now. I'll get around to deleting the other 300 or so comment farts as soon as I'm patient enough to sit down and find them. They were much easier to find when they were listed on my start page as one of the last five comments. Since there have been real comments after those, they've disappeared into the darkness of my archives.

Now then, I've disabled the "post" feature in the comment pop-up window. You'll have to hit "preview" and then click post from that screen. Next I'll go about setting up the heavy artillery for the more robust spambots.

Now then, today I've been up to my nose in paint and paint stripper fumes. Scott has been working on the hallway, and I've been working on the piano.

I posted extensively about my work in the hallway back when I was unemployed between gigs. Well, the troublesome hallway in which I stripped all that paint from the mouldings is done. Except for the floor. Scott is touching up the paint around the door frames as I type.

The piano....well. That's another issue. I'm using a spray-on stripper which is a lot faster of a job than the paint-on variety, but even so the piano is the size of an elephant. Since it's been in the garage for a year, the turning (what was left of it) is completely shot--some keys won't even hammer.

At some point it had a really rich cherry stain on it. I don't know what happened that provoked someone to paint it white. Blech.

Take it off!stripp2.jpg

If the weather remains mild this week, I hope to at least get all the paint off. Then the cycle of blackmailing negotiating with all my male acquaintances to help get it into the house begins.

Posted by Tiffany at January 2, 2005 07:38 PM
Comments

Wow, I can't believe that was white when it is so nice to start with.

Posted by: Adi at January 3, 2005 07:41 AM

What is that godawful knotty pine box on top? I know that wasn't original equipment on that piano! Please tell me someone didn't bang a sheet music storage box together out of 1x4's and nail that to the top of that piano! That's piano abuse!!

Posted by: El Capitan at January 3, 2005 08:03 AM

See, we're not exactly sure what the deal with that is. There was a mirror screwed to the front of it, so I guess they called themselves economizing on the backer.

Until I get the rest stripped, I won't know what pieces are missing.

Posted by: Tiffany at January 3, 2005 10:40 AM

I'm sitting here looking at my monstrosity of a piano right now. It mocks me the entire time I sit in my office. It's about 41 years-old, nice mahogany, needs new hardware and would look beautiful in lacquer black. It has a rubbed finish, no real protective coating and since it's been in my house, the kids scratched it up really bad when they were toddlers - one of them actually teethed on one of the ends. Little beaver. Unfortunately, I have no desire to refnish this piece myself and the cost to have it done professinally is outrageous. I'd pay you a tidy sum to do it for me if you lived nearby - too bad you're 1500 miles away. I hate to get rid of it, because as sure as I do, one of the boys will beg for lessons. Sigh. So many projects, so little time and money.

I remember not having kids and having a managable size house in which I could actually finish projects...

Posted by: Momotrips at January 3, 2005 12:21 PM

What in the WORLD are people thinking, painting over such a beautiful finish like that? I'll never understand it. *sigh*

Hope you're having a great new year!!!

Posted by: Asherah at January 3, 2005 04:23 PM