Hello all, and thank you in advance for my first post!
I have what should be a simple question, but thus far, no simple answers.
Anyway. I have made a small maple project, finished first with 3 coats of Danish Oil, and followed by 2 coats of Zinnser Bulls-Eye Shellac (not de-waxed, just the regular no-frills Home-Depot stuff).
The finish is almost perfect...really even and shiny. No dust nibs.
At this point all I want to do is even-out the final shellac coat, which is only very slightly textured but really almost perfect...but I can't find any great recommendations.
All the advice I am seeing seems to be aimed at larger projects with many more coats of shellac and lots of dust imperfections; namely, all sorts of mechanized "rubbing out" with #0000 SW and fancy waxes, mechanical buffing, mineral oil rubs with w/d paper from 600 grit up to 2000, and many other rather elaborate techniques that seem more aimed at harshly abrading the top coat on a larger furniture project and then slowly working it back to a polish, with the ample help of wax.
But all I want to do is take an almost perfect, dust-nib-free top coat of shellac on a rather small project, and make it perfect, without overly harsh abrasion and waxing (I prefer the shellac feel to the wax feel). It seems this should be simple, but thus far I have not found a good solution.
Thanks all in advance!