Today I stripped off some varnish from my Magritte pipes using Citrus Strip, and reapplied a different one after polishing them up.  Unfortunately, I discovered that the varnish is quite a good solvent for latex, and my gloves dissolved into the finish, so I’ll probably have to restrip and revarnish.  Grrrr.

I also cleaned and prepped some pipe for etching tests.  I used some Montana Gold black acrylic spray paint on some decoratively masked pipe.  I’ll try soaking it in some etching acid tomorrow. This paint is supposedly easy to burn off with a laser, so I hope it works well.