Mike G wrote:Interesting. With the wiping method I never give the application a second thought. It just gets slapped on any old how. It's the wiping off that counts. Shellac must be different because of the speed it dries.
Shellac is pretty much drying as you put it on, it's a fairly quick finish but quite a meticulous process to get right! It's not really something that can be
worked as such since it dries so quickly compared to say Osmo where you can pour the tin out and brush it out quite well by working it with the brush with no consequence to the finish, if you keep brushing shellac as it's drying it just gets sticky, balls up into little clumps and ruins your surface finish.
Thin, thin,
thin layers and just build it up slowly!
Clicksping has a good video on the French Polishing process, which is another way to put shellac on:
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