Electric mandolin arrived from Europe today. Some Philistine previous owner had glued a couple of strips of rattlesnake skin along the sides and added some butterfly decals. I managed to reach the builder, Kevin Parsons of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and he practically begged me to remove all that stuff, which I now have. (The wife wanted to know how snakeskin got in the wastebasket.)
There is an awful lot of gunk left behind, however. Kevin says he only ever used old-school nitrocellulose lacquer finishes, and I should use what are called 'white spirits' in the UK if I needed help with gunk removal. He thinks that's the same stuff as what is called mineral spirits in the U.S. I have plenty of mineral spirits.
Should it be OK to use some mineral spirits on a soft cloth with this finish, if warm water alone doesn't do the trick?
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