Thanks all, and to Ed and Adam.  

I was using shellac pretty steadily on restoration work as well as new stuff,
and went with the traditional wine bottle with a grooved cork.  A bit like your
modern sauce bottles, but 200 years ago - you grab it, upend it, and just enough
comes out onto the fad to keep polishing - or you shake it over a saucer if
you’re working the pad face first.
I too had stuff mixed and usable after a two year spell, but I used the 2lb cut
for this - because it was still there - instead of mixing fresh.  I bought a new
50 litres of alcohol two months back ready to get back into ‘production’ but
hadn’t mixed up fresh.   I’d forgotten the glass - I’ll go try some on the last
of that bottle.

I knew better then, and I know even better now.  Just spent time with neat
alcohol and cloths removing the surface.  See what tomorrow brings.


Keep on shining…

Richard
Wilson
Yorkshireman galoot
  in Northumberland