Rich Engelhardt
01-11-2012, 2:09 PM
As an FYI, since I've seen people here wonder how shellac stands up to UV....
I'm redoing some old pine trim on a house built in the mid 1950's.
One of the windows that faces West had some rather crude things carved into parts of the sill.
I sanded the obscene message out and sanded down to bare wood on about 3/4ths of the sill.
I put a coat of Zinsser Amber shellac on last night and it blended in perfectly with the 50 plus year old shellac.
I was kind of curious myself to see how it would work which is why I only sanded part of it. It came out a lot better than I expected.
Since the window faces West and catches the full brunt of the Sun, I expected some change in color. I was amazed there was none or at least none that I could see at night using the twin 500Watt worklights.
I'm redoing some old pine trim on a house built in the mid 1950's.
One of the windows that faces West had some rather crude things carved into parts of the sill.
I sanded the obscene message out and sanded down to bare wood on about 3/4ths of the sill.
I put a coat of Zinsser Amber shellac on last night and it blended in perfectly with the 50 plus year old shellac.
I was kind of curious myself to see how it would work which is why I only sanded part of it. It came out a lot better than I expected.
Since the window faces West and catches the full brunt of the Sun, I expected some change in color. I was amazed there was none or at least none that I could see at night using the twin 500Watt worklights.