Fw: Plate Finish, was Varsol

[jolly roger]

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At 08:32 PM 7/1/01 -0700, you wrote: 
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> Hi Mark
>  
>  I'm aware of the many amazing properties of shellac but it just never
> occurred to me to try it in this application until you guys tweaked my duh!
> barrier.  This might be my answer.I'm in the middle of a plate job that is a
> very long and arduous story.
>     Thanks
>  
>   Dale Erwin
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>
> Hi Dale,
>                  The only other time I used it as a sealer.  A customer had
> stripped a cabinet themselves and oiled the case, then decided to have the
> piano rebuilt and refinished.  No matter what we washed the stripped case
> with, stripper, lacquer thinner, alcohol.  The oil would do it's nasty work
> on the finish, from below. A few coats of shellac to seal the grain.   It
> worked like a charm.   That's what twigged me to use it on the plate. 
> My re finisher mentioned that he now uses it as a sealer on Oak dining room
> table tops, for a full grain finish, and reckons he has less problems with
> shrinkage.
> Roger

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