I have a friend that made a wooden table with black iron pipe for the legs, which he never applied a finish to. He has left the black iron pipe as it comes from the supplier with the oil coating, he now is running into the problem of people bumping into the legs and getting the oil and whatever else has stuck to it on their clothes. He asked me how I would finish them. When I told him that if I was finishing them I would probably wipe the oil off with acetone and lightly sand the mill scale and rough surfaces down, wipe it again with rag soaked in acetone to remove the dust and apply a couple of coats of black spray paint (to keep the current look) made for metal application he looked at me funny.
How would you handle finishing the black iron pipe table legs?
How would you handle finishing the black iron pipe table legs?