{"id":95,"date":"2022-11-01T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shellac.net\/news\/http:\/shellac.net\/news\/2009\/12\/french-polish\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:48:03","slug":"french-polishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/french-polishing\/","title":{"rendered":"French Polishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">French Polishing &#8212;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>French Polishing<\/strong> is the name given to the process <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">of coating wood with a solution of shellac <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">dissolved in alcohol, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">using a \u201crubber\u201d made of rag <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">and cotton wool instead of with a brush. The <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">alcohol evaporates, leaving the shellac deposited <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">upon the wood.<br \/>\nWhen applied correctly it <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">produces what is possibly the finest looking finish <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">for furniture. Shellac was first introduced into <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Europe about the 16th Century, but the term <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">FRENCH POLISH was not used until about <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">1820, when the process was developed by a French <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">cabinet maker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>The 4-page PDF<\/em> &#8212; <\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>&#8216;<a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/GuideToFrenchPolishing.pdf\">Guide to French Polishing<\/a>&#8216;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Polishing &#8212; French Polishing is the name given to the process of coating wood with a solution of shellac dissolved in alcohol, using a \u201crubber\u201d made of rag and cotton wool instead of with a brush. The alcohol evaporates, leaving the shellac deposited upon the wood. When applied correctly it produces what is possibly <a href='https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/french-polishing\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[8,13,11],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-sheets","category-shellac-flake","tag-finish-repair","tag-notes","tag-shellac","category-1-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shellac.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}