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what removes wax from shellac?

Gravity.

I'm sure there's some chemical witchcraft that commercial shellac manufacturers use to speed things up (or maybe a centrifuge) but in a nutshell, you dissolve natural shellac flakes and wait for wax settle to the bottom. Shellac's natural affinity for wax makes me wonder if I'm in the market for scrubbing the finish off this piece (locally) with alcohol and starting over.

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Gravity.

I'm sure there's some chemical witchcraft that commercial shellac manufacturers use to speed things up (or maybe a centrifuge) but in a nutshell, you dissolve natural shellac flakes and wait for wax settle to the bottom. Shellac's natural affinity for wax makes me wonder if I'm in the market for scrubbing the finish off this piece (locally) with alcohol and starting over.

Rob, since it doesn't cost much have you thought about giving Mr. Clean’s Magic Erasure a try? It’s supposed to get crayon marks off of walls. Looks like a sponge, but I'm not sure if it would work with shellac though. It’s used dry, and you can buy it in most grocery stores. Has two side, but use the white side.

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Great suggestion.

Another possibility is Formlal 409. Its less abrasive than the Magic Eraser.

You know I thought of 409 but I wasn't sure if the ingredients in 409 would behave well with shellac, and even after going to the MSDS on it, I'm still not sure.

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Make a test piece on some scrap then put crayon on it and go to town testing things until one works the way you want it to better than using the real thing as a "fingers crossed" thing.

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Wow...that is tough...I have tried with luck in the past using one of those Tide stain remover pens. But with shellac sometimes I have ghosting of the Crayon in the surface. Works great on lacquer and water-based finishes. Lots of info if you do a Google search...but if you find something please let us know.

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No idea how the shellac would react to it, but for some reason baby/diaper wipes seem to clean up darned near anything. Did the trick when my, at the time, 2 year old decided to color the keys of my piano green and orange.

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D'oh! Any silver bullets out there that would remove a toddler's crayoning from a shellac finish?

Rob, after reading through all of the suggestions, which one did you finally go with? If none of the above, then what did you do to remove the crayon marks from the shellac finish? Thanks Rob.

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