Debbi,
Some of us here have had really good results using Barkeeper's Friend cleanser (available in grocery stores and hardware stores in the US) to remove black water marks on teak and walnut furniture.
It has a little oxalic acid in it, which is a wood bleach but the concentration is very low so it's much safer than using the oxalic acid sold specifically for bleaching wood.
Some here have recommended making a paste and letting it sit overnight. I've tried that but with varying results--sometimes it bleaches too much. I guess it depends on how deep the damage is. I've tried increasingly short times, like 10-30 minutes but still got a little too much bleaching with some stains.
Most recently I simply made a paste and rubbed it into a stain with my fingertip until the stain vanished, which took maybe 15 seconds. This particular stain had indistinct edges and probably wasn't very deep. The wood looks perfect now.
Just be sure to rinse completely with a soft rag and then dry immediately.
Strange and related. My great...
Strange and related. My great uncle was a Fulbright scholar studying in Germany around 1955. His wife fell in love with a credenza designed by Arne Vodder for Sibast furniture. They brought it back to the States. 60 years later, Turns out it was sold to him by Povl Dinesen. I'm looking at his stamp on the back of the credenza now.
Your dad made a lotta people happy!
More Povl Dinesen appreciation.
@PD
Just wanted to say that I also am very, very happy to own a piece of furniture that I presume to have been designed and made by your father. It's a long bench made of teak--about 73 inches wide. It's marked beneath but not with the "supplied by" notation that was sometimes used. Pics were uploaded in a thread I made a couple of days ago trying to figure out whether it had been designed by any of the other noteworthy folks associated with the PD group. I've reattached the photos here just for clarity sake. I've never seen another of these benches and am super, super happy to have it as part of my very modest (but growing) collection of furniture.
If there's any extra information you might be able to provide about the piece, I'd love to hear it.
Thanks so much. Cheers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/120728763@N05/sets/72157645484848275/
I havn't been on this side for af long time, sorry.
To Debbi: I don't know much about stains. As I wrote earlier, I'm not a furniture-maker but an economist.
To the people, who knew my father:Thank's for alle the nice words.
To Rogue:Sorry, but I can't open the Flickr-link to the picture of the bench. My father did make a bench with 3-4 cushions, but I have to point, that my father worked on his own. There was no "PD Group". He was the only designer, and he didn't make so many pieces.He sold the other - more famous - designer's furnitures in his shops, and his label might be from selling - not design 😉
Best regardsPalle Dinesen
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