Would also like to hear peoples first hand accounts of applying the great beetle secretion that is shellac. Did you mix it up yourself with flakes or buy it premade? How many coats did you use?
Cheers
Pete
I bought 55g of the palest shellac flakes I could find on ebay and mixed a 17lb cut. This means you dissolve (by ratio)17lb of shellac into 1 gallon of Meths.
In more practical terms this equates to 1g into 0.5ml
I think I was a bit heavy handed with the meths, so it was probably more like 30-35ml into the 55g batch.
I then used a paint brush to apply it
As I said before I was in a bit of a rush, and put on about 6 coats in one night, but I think you'd be better off applying one coat at a time, and leaving it overnight, maybe doing another coat the next morning and then recoat in the evening. 4 coats should do the trick, you can always ride the bike between coats to see whether you've got enough on.
By the way, the tape I had under mine was from the same batch of SABA, also supplied by Dave Marsh
^ Look forward to seeing how you get on
I bought 55g of the palest shellac flakes I could find on ebay and mixed a 17lb cut. This means you dissolve (by ratio)17lb of shellac into 1 gallon of Meths.
In more practical terms this equates to 1g into 0.5ml
I think I was a bit heavy handed with the meths, so it was probably more like 30-35ml into the 55g batch.
I then used a paint brush to apply it
As I said before I was in a bit of a rush, and put on about 6 coats in one night, but I think you'd be better off applying one coat at a time, and leaving it overnight, maybe doing another coat the next morning and then recoat in the evening. 4 coats should do the trick, you can always ride the bike between coats to see whether you've got enough on.
By the way, the tape I had under mine was from the same batch of SABA, also supplied by Dave Marsh