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Hey guys, I have a question about when to actually apply the shellac. After what grit of sanding do you put on the first coat? If most of you top stain at 600 then I assume it's at 600 or 800 if you go that high. But also, what is the highest grit of sanding you can go up to before the shellac will ...

Hey Andrew, I agree that the color control is mainly in your stain job, but I was wondering if any of you guys also use the shade of the shellac to bring out more tones in that stain color. In my mind I was thinking that it might make the colors feel warmer depending on the type of shellac used. So ...

Quick Question... I've done a couple more of these samples just to play with the stains and base color/ top color combinations. I am using all alcohol based stain so I do have the problem of the two bleeding together. How do you guys work with the feibings dyes? I'm ordering the full set of 4oz off ...

I'm sure you guys all have your shellac sources, but for those interested on where I picked up the Platina shellac, I went with shellacshack.com.

Hello again to everyone here at PMF... I just ordered some shellac flakes and decided to simply go with dewaxed platina so as not to impart any tinting to my stain color. At least for now since I am an absolute novice. This is supposed to be the clearest shellac according to the site I ordered from....

Thanks for the information Tyler. AND for this amazing resource you've put together for us! I had seen your post in a thread about 10 pages back about your method and saved it to my notes. I'm definitely going to give your method a go. I was thinking the same thing today at work about the difference...

Okay, finally got the pictures up from my phone; a serious pain in the ass. But anyway, yeah I had read in a bunch of the threads here that most guys sand up to 600 or 800 tops. One or two mentioned going to 1200 on occasion and some calling it done as low as 400. I just figured that since I bought ...

I took some pictures today on my phone during lunch and tried to upload them. The files were too large so I'll get them up tonight when I get to my computer and resize them or rehost them. Sorry about that!

Hey everyone. I have been lurking and reading up on finishing and slowly trying to amass all the needed things. I still don't have the fiebings dyes, but I wanted to try anyway. This sample was done with Mohawk blue and perfect brown penetrating stain. There is no shellac coat because I still needed...