Trying to Strip Weird Paint

[Karen Dacy]

Hi,
i am trying to strip back a 1930s kitchen dresser to bare timber. The first layers were easy enough and i got them off with a heat gun and paint strpper in the difficult parts. Now i have hit a very tough layer of matt beige paint, which will not shift with anything other than a sanding disc. This is SLOW and impossible in the difficult corners and ornamrntations. Any idea what it might be, and what might shift it? I dont think it is kalsomine.

[ian]

the paint is probably lead based
I suggest you try one of the environmentally very unfriendly paint strippers

[Quinny01]

If it is a flat surface, plenty of paint stripper as mentioned above, and scraper blade on an oscillating tool. Has worked a charm on hard to remove varnish for me.

[Karen Dacy]

the paint is probably lead based
I suggest you try one of the environmentally very unfriendly paint strippers

Thanks - oh dear i have probably half poisoned myself if it is lead. Greetings from Oz.