Shellawax EEE Ultra Shine<\/a> as an under layer before applying the Shellawax. EEE Ultra Shine is a shellac\/wax in its own right but it contains microabrasives (tripoli powder or rotten stone) as well. It is applied and the excess cleaned off and with the same rag and the lathe on it is buffed to a decent shine. This prepares the surface for the final Shellawax incredibly well. The mirror like finish was like none I have achieved before and I am extremely pleased with the result.<\/p>\nAs always, I wish all my readers a great experience in whatever your wood working interests happen to be and to those who like working with lathes especially, do a good turn today!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I did have some trouble with the Afromosia being a bit brittle and splintery when cut very thin on the edges of the platters.\u00a0 I like edges that are thin enough to practically cut you, and sometimes they have, but that was difficult to achieve here.\u00a0 In addition to being splintery beware that splinters from Afromosia, as with Wenge, have a higher tendency than normal to get infected.\u00a0 I had to dull the edges quite a bit to get a nice finish on them but I still think they look good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":3156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,128,136,137,129,138,139,130],"tags":[144,154,168,171,188,200,239,240,241],"yoast_head":"\n
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