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gxs

Post subject: wax over shellac

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:48 pm

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Does anyone have a favorite wax to recommend to put over a shellac finish? I want to put a final polish on a project. I have used McGuire's top coat safe before with some luck, but sometimes it clouds up. What do you use? Thanks,
GS

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gxs

Post subject: Re: wax over shellac

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 2:22 am

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Thanks Filippo. Are you using 100% carnauba, or a blend?. The hardware down the street has a carnauba blend in the wood finish aisle, but there was other stuff in there I did not recognize.
GS

Filippo Morelli wrote:

Depends. Carnauba or Briwax does the trick.

Filippo

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gxs

Post subject: Re: wax over shellac

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 12:22 am

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Fantastic, thanks. I'll look for it and give it a try.
GS

Filippo Morelli wrote:

Carnauba can not be used at 100%. That's false marketing.

I use Zymol Carbon wax.

Filippo

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B. Howard

Post subject: Re: wax over shellac

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 9:20 am

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I like Butchers Boston Polish, but any high quality furniture paste wax will do. Avoid bowling alley wax as it is not the right blend for this.

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gxs

Post subject: Re: wax over shellac

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 12:59 am

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Thanks Brian, I'll look for that also.
GS

B. Howard wrote:

I like Butchers Boston Polish, but any high quality furniture paste wax will do. Avoid bowling alley wax as it is not the right blend for this.

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gxs

Post subject: Re: wax over shellac

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 1:21 am

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I found Johnson Wax general purpose paste did not work well for me, clouded up quickly. I also don't like that the JW doesn't say what is in it on the tin.
I also tried Howard's Feed -N- Wax, and while it was easy to work with I am not sure it left much of a wax coat over the shellac, which was already pretty shiny. Thanks guys, I'll pick up these products and give them a try.

GS

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RTurner

Post subject: Re: wax over shellac

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:10 pm

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I keep meaning to get some Renaissance Wax...a "microcrystalline" wax originally developed for the British Museum. Suppose to be "da bomb".

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