How to Restore the Finish on an Antique Table

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The denatured alcohol melted the old shellac. You can use a dull scraper and more alcohol to remove the shellac entirely. Then polyurethane. This video is misleading if you're working on furniture varnished with shellac which most of it is. The denatured alcohol will always melt it and you can't just wipe briefly and apply stain.

Ed wood

Jun 19, at 2:05am

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Great job !!! Now I feel inspire to do wood restoration :)

M Salas

Jun 15, at 12:20pm

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I used this technique on a mid century piece and it did not work as advertised. For some reason when I wiped on the mineral spirits then wiped off the mineral spirits with the denaturalised alcohol it left a terrible smear. Can anyone tell me why this happened? I am probably going to end up sanding down the entire dining set now. I think they should have explained at the beginning that it does not work with everything.

Aaron

Mar 3, at 11:12pm

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I purchased an old solid cherry coffetable at auction. I removed all the old finish but there seems to be black spots (mold??) on one section where the old finish seemed to have had water left on it. I sanded the table and stained it but the spots keep coming up. Any suggestions. Thanks, Maggie

Maggie Braton

Feb 26, at 11:34am

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Very helpful....It is exactly what I was looking for.

JoAnn Cresci

Jan 8, at 4:18pm

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