Cleaning and repairing the Shellac clear coat on Vintage sewing machine heads
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Bear with me, I have a couple more pics.[ATTACH=CONFIG]504130[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504129[/ATTACH]The first one shows where an area of yellowed shellac has come off. The shellac actually pilled up into pellets on the machine. The second pic shows two more yellowed areas. Should I keep going until it does like the first pic, or am I removing too much. It seems like the whole bed of the machine would eventually do this. Is this what i am wanting to happen? Thanks!
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You just have not gone far enough. You still have old yellowed shellac on the bed. You have not damaged anything. Take some alcohol and oil and cont the process. You can use shellac with linseed oil if you like but it will be slower. The last process is to french polish with shellac and a very little linseed oil. You just have not yet blended the old shellac with the new yet. Use a soft rag and go in circles and then straight lines. The scratches are from to heavy a hand. This takes a while to do and is not a quick process.
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If you read you will see that the idea is NOT to remove the old shellac but to blend it.
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Now I'm confused. I've read and read the thread. I even printed the instructions out before beginning - both Glen's and miriam's. I didn't set out to take ANY shellac off but apparently that's what I did. According to Glen I need to keep going. . . I am not going to do anything else to it myself as I obviously don't understand what I am supposed to do well enough.
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