On Aug 22, 2018, at 07:01 AM, Ed Minch  wrote:

I use Everclear and mix up a ketchup-squeeze-bottle’s worth at a time. It sits
on my bench (basement shop - pretty constant 72-76°) for sometimes over a year
and still works great. I keep the little snap lid on the bottle.

I use Everclear for shellac as well, and store it in half-pint canning jars.
I've used stuff that's two years old without drying problems, for what it's
worth.

My favorite innovation is putting Everclear in Tabasco bottles, which makes it
really easy to shake a drop or two out on the shellac pad (fill it using a
hypodermic syringe cylinder as funnel).

-- adam
(who keeps forgetting to pick up more shellac thinner at the likker store)