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Thanks for that, I get the jist of what you are saying, I will give it another go on the next guitar, Interesting about your grain filling, I apply a thin sealer coat and then use alcohol and pumice to fill the grain, sometimes adding a drop of shellac to help bind the slurry. I have tried other...

Sounds about right, and a good way to test it if you are unsure, come to think of it, I have noticed that my sanding pads have been gumming up a bit more than normal, I just put it down to maybe the tabletop or the oil, but when I used to use my own mix the pads never gummed up that bad hmmmm...

Thanks, apreciate it, I hope so too, but I guess it's all part of the experience and you just have to roll with it!

Thanks for that info, with regards to the shelf life, that is my line of thought too, I have only once had an issue with the flakes and that was a blonde (bleached) flake and when I mixed it it still had not dissolved properly after a week and was a bit jelly like, at first I didn't think the...

Hi Mignal, thanks for your input. I would agree with everything say there though I'm not quite sure what you mean by the witness lines. If I'm honest though, I haven't always followed those rules exactly, normally I work till the rubber is dry and then add a few drops of alcohol at the end of...

I've never had that issues but from people i have talked about it with it is probably a result of the shellac being applied too thick to quick!

Thought I may as well post a pic of the guitar :-)

Thanks Ed65, i may give that a try, the one good thing about these kind of things is they can provide opportunities for experimenting as worst case is you may have to start again, which you may have to anyway lol! Thanks for that info and yes I am doubting the melamine too, but hopefully the...

Hi Ed65, yes it had been about that long. Like Mike said, the melamine could be a factor, but I find it hard to believe that fiddes would not have tested the product with likely scenarios and their tabletop had been on sale for a long time now and they have had no problems like this apparently...

Thanks again Mike, that pretty much sums up what am thinking, damn why did I try something new lol! You could be right about the melamine although I did use a polish in the past which had melamine in it and had no problems with that, but that had other stuff in it too I think so maybe that...

Also spoke to a guy at the company I bought the Tabletop from and he said It must be that I used oil and in his 8 years he had never heard of anyone using oil with Tabletop and I got the impression that he thought it weird that I had. So maybe I'm going mad, but I've I only heard if a handful of...

Thanks Mike, I appreciate your fast reply there. That was my impression, and to be fair he Guy from Fiddes said he wouldnt trust it if it were a few years old bht thought that it should still be fine after 6 months if kept in a sealed container. It's been about 6 months now since I bought it...

Hi, looking for some opinions from you guys. I have always mixed my own shellac until recently when I bought some fiddes Tabletop about 6 months ago, also I always used mineral oil but decided to give linseed a go at the same time, I polished one guitar and it didn't feel good, nothing felt...