I have a beautiful 10 point 160 class whitetail rack that is very old Im stripping all the varnish off,but cant seem to get the " orange " color out of the rack. Does anyone have any idea on what to use to get it back to normal.
Thanks Brent
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Try alcohol. If it's orange and old - it's very likley they were shellaced, not varnished. Use alcohol and a cropped down brush - and scrub scrub scrub. Wipe with a white rag and you should see orangish brown. Keep going until no more colour comes off on the rag.
Most likely, since that's the cheaper, most readily available kind. Try washing with MEK (OUTDOORS!). Then bleach them and stain them. The orange in spar varnish has stained the antlers and only bleach and restaining them will "cure" your problem.