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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 9998961, member: 5170&quot;][USER=30]@antidiem[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s in the third paragraph of my IP, but I’ll reiterate:</p><p><br /></p><p>I started off with Howard’s Restore-a-Finish for dark walnut, which worked very well for the small dings and finish losses which are inevitable after 170 years.</p><p>However, the walnut back panels behind the shelves were a problem on another level. Due to repeated humid heat exposure, the shellac had alligatored severely. I used a new brush lightly dipped in denatured alcohol to repeatedly brush these areas in a feathering fashion to avoid brushstrokes and melt the outer layer of shellac. Once it set up it looked more like wood grain and had evened out significantly. I counted this as an 80% to 90% improvement.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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