OK, As I predicted, The Everclear was easy to find. The first liquor store we hit had it.
Without any basis for comparison, I think it did a great job. I've read where people say it's like working with butter or cream. I understand this statement now. I spent a lot of hours last night doing the cleaning stage with the alcohol and the linseed oil. This is because the finish on the 201 was poor. I mentioned in the
other thread that it was almost like the gozilla finish but not. DH described it better - it's like someone threw a handful of sand in the final coat of the shellac. When I realized that with much elbow grease and liberal use of my very soft fingernails that I could remove the raised parts, I set about rectifying what was wrong with the finish so I spent a lot of time with the Everclear. (Locked the cats and dog out of the room for this step!)
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This is after cleaning and before the first coat of Shellac.