shellac

[old_picker]

thinking of using shellac to finish a damaged guitar top
i have sanded it back to 400 and it is clean and ready to go
just wondering if the feast and watson amber stuff is ok
if not what should i use??

[auscab]

If it's a standard orange flake type, the amber colour may be to strong for a pale Spuce top, if that's what you are repairing ? Depends on how much you are going to put on as well
For light colours the UB Hard is nice and light . or a blonde shellac.

This is a picture I took a while back of some shellac.

from left

UB a standard Blonde and an orange flake .

cheers Rob

[old_picker]

If it's a standard orange flake type, the amber colour may be to strong for a pale Spuce top, if that's what you are repairing ? Depends on how much you are going to put on as well
For light colours the UB Hard is nice and light . or a blonde shellac.

This is a picture I took a while back of some shellac.

from left

UB a standard Blonde and an orange flake .

cheers Rob

it is a pale spruce top

[auscab]

If you have a raw ,stripped spruce sanded to 400 and you have to body it up so the grain is filled then finish it off . the amber could be to strong ? but it may be just right

If the original finish is what is sanded back to 400 , a thin finish of amber would be hard to notice.

With pale polish jobs like bleached cherry or rock maple furniture I have a mix of mainly blonde and may add 20% flake at most, if any at all. I have gotten used to the fact that I may have to strip and start again when colour matching.

[kiwigeo]

I mix my own shellac up using blonde or super blonde flakes from either LMI or Liberon.

[old_picker]

i found a supplier of shellac in bayswater
as they always say "you can buy anything you want in bayswater"

avlo australia
7-9 waldhiem st bayswater vic 1300 716693
you need to call ahead as they wont have it packaged on the shelf

they have orange, garnet, blonde and dewaxed blond [super blonde?] dry shellac
john, the bloke i spoke, to is hell of a nice bloke and tells me they are moving to dandenong in september 2012