If your Wolf had black oven doors, I doubt you'll find stainless steel beneath the paint. Paint or enamel finishes are almost always applied to ordinary steel.

Touching up the black is probably a better way to go.

Could you order a ss door or did they only come in black?

Or, if it is ss or ordinary steel that you like, could it be sandblasted?

We looked at painting a ss door to a color and learned that the ss would need to be roughened up to be able to hold the paint. Your surface may not be smooth under the black paint.

I haven't stripped any additional paint off but it sure looks like stainless under the paint. I find it hard to believe they manufacture 2 doors in different materials for the same stove. I don't know if the finish under the paint is smooth or rough; again because I haven't taken any more off. I don't really want to commit myself unless someone has done this before and it worked.

Well, you could try sandblasting and if it didn't work possibly repaint or replace the door.

If the line was available in either black or stainless at the time, wouldn't there be a stainless door available as a replacement? I don't know what the Wolf Gourmet offered.

Is the whole door painted or is it a panel?
(For example, the American Range is now available in colors. These are panels and you can actually swap them out if you ever wanted fire engine red or whatever, then wanted to go back to stainless)

Looks like it did come in ss.....if you could find a door?? This is an old photo - found it on google, images.

http://www.wolfstoves.com/Wolf/48Home/48andHood.jpg

The whole door is painted, it's not just a panel (I wish).My only concern with sandblasting is potential damage to the finish of the stainless. I was thinking about some type if paint stripper and then removing the paint and the stripper with a pressure washer.The scratch in the door is only in the paint and hasn't dented or damaged the door in any way; so I don't really want to get into replacing the door if I don't absolutely have to.

The Wolf Gourmet range was available in both a painted finish version and in a stainless steel version. The painted model was several hundred dollars cheaper than the stainless model. Do you suppose that would have been the case if they had simply painted over stainless steel? Stainless steel is considerably more expensive than ordinary steel.

I can assure you, your painted Wolf range is not stainless steel under the paint. Wolf did indeed make a cheaper painted version in ordinary steel, and a more expensive stainless steel version.