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[camwyn]

Got the underparts of the bed stained last night and left them to dry. I was down to the literal dregs of the can of stain by the time it was over (does 'the sludgy yuk at the bottom of the liquid' count as dregs if it's not a beverage?), which made for some abnormally dark parts, but given that by that time I was slapping stain on the underside of the mattress slats, I'm not too fussed about the color there. One of the side pieces that might be visible came out a little blotchy for some reason, though. That's a bit weird, as I'm pretty sure I used the stain prep base layer on that area specifically to avoid blotching. Hopefully I can obscure that a bit with a few layers of shellac.

... I realize that up until the mid-to-late twentieth century shellac was a widespread and completely normal substance to be using as a wood finish, but I still find it obscurely entertaining that I'm covering my furniture with something so old school that it's literally alcohol and stuff that came out of a bug's rear end.

(Took some pictures before and after the staining. Will post them once I've got some more from the shellacking process.)