Quote Originally Posted by mainaman View Post
As far as I know the shellac, which is natural product, goes bad with time and looses its properties. When such shellac gets in contact with water it becomes white and also can peel off. This info I read when I was researching shellac for wood finishing, it also happened with old shellac I used one one of my stones . May be the kind you are using is more durable.
That's kinda what happened to mine. EDIT: it didn't really get white on mine, just a little dull. What did you do to that one stone that was coated with the old shellac?

Quote Originally Posted by MODINE View Post
I think you better just send that stone too me to fix. We'll get through this..
Mike
Thanks for the tips. The first coat seemed to have dried well so I just went ahead with it, but I guess I should have really checked. It looks solid, but any real handling of the stone starts to leave marks, etc...
Are you serious about the offer to send you the stone or is that one of those "send those to me for proper disposal comments"?