I've acetone soaked a few stocks, some for over a week. The worst oil soaked one ended up with much natural wood resins being removed. I suspect that some of the resin loss in this area was due to the acetone, but was already compromised from the 70 yrs of oil soaking. I wouldn't put much of the blame on the acetone bath as the reason for this.
The resin loss was mainly near corners and the surface and appeared to be like little fibers witout a binder. I used a very thin cyanoacrylate (super) glue to fill and bind the fibers back together after drying out from the acetone bath.
Last edited by Chuck H; 12/18/10 02:18 PM.
