[Chas]

Sterling 5f5 paint remover...

Zip-Strip Contractors grade. Zip has different formulations, look.

Tru-value has these and others also some Mom & Pop hardware stores...

Avoid ordering, has to be sent by surface freight as hazardous $$$.

Find a seal-able plastic or metal container to place the item in. If the stripper is left to open air the good stuff will all evaporate before it works.

Yes, sometimes a second coating of stripper has to be used...

There used to be a stripper package for home renovations to remove up to 10 layers of paint. It had a gauze backing material that was worked into the stripper. Peel-Away? It still could not do the job with lead paint. The lead was soaked into the wood and could be detected...

Also, I use heavy solvent safe rubber gloves in which I hold wads of wood shavings, like for animal bedding to scrub the surface. The shavings do a double job, scrape up the softened finish and gather the waste stripper. Making disposal of the waste easy, allow the shavings to thoroughly dry so all meth is gone. Place in paper bag and into Chiminea or with garbage collection. This way no tool marks in the soft wood and stripper goop removed from fine carvings...

The bits of wood dust will fall off the cabinet during a wiping with a light solvent like acetone. All the wood filler will be pulled out too...

Be safe!

Chas