I re did the entire inside of my 35-2 with Epifanes gloss and am very happy with it. The hard part was eliminating the "stains" left by the P/O when he took all those items off the wall that had hung in place for all those years.
Edd
I'm curious on how it went. I'm presently revarnishing with Epithanes. I first pulled out all doors and other access panels to first go through the process at home in a controlled evironment, prior to tackling the rest in the cabin.
I didn't want to do any sanding since this might go through the veneer that is on most panels.
I first used the Amazon stripper. Left on for a few hours, then used a putty knife to scrape the flat areas and a scuff pads on other areas. Wet scuff pad to clean off and then hosed down and dried. Repeated for a few areas that still had some old varnish residue. All panels looked pretty good except for a couple "shadows" from attached plaques and one bleached area from some unkown chemical. Use a small bit of stain on that spot to darken and now it's just barely visible and is at the bottom of the slider under the stove so is not in a high visibility area.
Then used Amazon teak cleaner on the panels and per instructions, waited a day (actually a day and a half).
I have so far put on three coats of Epithanes, drying a day or two between coats. Per instructions, thinned with Epithanes brush thinner 50%, 25%, and 10%. Instructions says sanding not needed between coats. Before first coat, wiped all surfaces with acetone to pull off surface oils. Also used a tack cloth on the surfaces just before each coat.
Unfortunately, the surface after three coats is a bit rough. There is still grain texture which is OK at this point, but there is addtionally, a slightly "sandy" texture. I think I will probably give it a light sanding before moving on to the unthinned build-up coats.
Is this texture "normal" at this point in the process?l Will a light smoothing sanding at this point correct this? Or should I just go on to the next coats and hope they level out and smooth the surface?
I want to make sure I work out all the "bugs" in this process before the greater challenge of working on all the surfaces in the cabin.