I have a shellac finished 30's rifle. Long story short copper cleaner was in the barrel and the rifle was in the rack pointed down. Some human vermin came into my shop [a shootable offense] and knocked the rifle cattywampus and the copper cleaner leaked through the floorplate and streaked the finish. O.K. I stripped the affected area [about the length of the action on both sides of the stock] with 0000 steel wool and carefully feathered into the good extant shellac finish. Then I cleaned the dust with alcohol and started building layers with Dark LAUREL MOUNTAIN FORGE STOCK FINISH. Then after several coats, I would cut with STEEL WOOL and continue onward. The layers are now even and the feathering can only be seen at an angle under the light, and only at the very glossy shellac end and the Laurel Forge SF, NOT AS GLOSSY beginnings. I used Birchwood Casey Stock Conditioner in extremely small amounts to bring up a gloss on the Laurel Forge SF. My problem is the color is not quite dark enough but VERY close and I could live with that but now I need a final coat of something that I can apply once, to just bring a glossy SHELLAC shine and look, that is a wee darker! I was thinking a final coat...very light of TRU OIL but I want EVERYONE'S OPINION especially the Grand Poohbah of wood STEVEN D. H. my neighbor in Livingston. To make THE PROBLEM simple if I only had one wish, I need the area that is repaired... shiny in a shellac finish way, but without the trouble of shellac and with just a final coat because everything else is good and I don't want to screw the pooch, I have already done! O.K. Brothers in Arms, my sons say it's fine DAD, but to my fellow gun lovers...I'm not worthy!!!!!!! Jerry
