The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Interiors Painting these old horn buttons

Luke,
On this more recent crunchy one, all I did was to sand down the old paint until it was nice and smooth using different grits of sandpaper. Then painted over it. Once nice and dry, used a single edge razor blade to scrape the new paint off of the stripes, lettering, etc. Looks like I could spend a little more time scraping the lettering.

Again, good enough for my daily beater.