I love his take on it in this blog. I've been barking up the "organic finishes" tree for about 6 years now and love my results. His blog confirms what I knew but could not express in my own words.

 

RIP ‘The Anarchist’s Finishing Manual’ – Lost Art Press

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Some of you will recall that I began work on “The Anarchist’s Finishing Manual” a few years ago, then...

 

You beat me to this, just read it and was going to post.

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Well, it was an interesting read. I'm not sure I'll be doing anything different from it, though.

21 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Well, it was an interesting read. I'm not sure I'll be doing anything different from it, though.

 

It was an entertaining read, and did have a lot of info.

One of the comments was using isopropyl alcohol instead of DNA with shellac.  I may try this in the future.

@Cal, I know that isopropyl and DNA are chemically very different. But, I have no idea how those differences would manifest in shellac. If you try both, please let us know how each turned out. 

If I remember Gene, I shall.  Truth be told, I will have to re-read the above to see what the point of using isopropyl was