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The accents and wax coat really added a lot, here. Nice job in general.
People tend to downplay shellac these days for anything deeper than spray-on solutions, but it does give a very distinct character that's hard to get elsewhere. It kinda feels like walnut sapwood, where you can do some fantastic things that everyone ignores because there's a 'standard' options nearby.
I will caution, if you've not heard it already, that shellac is extremely picky about thinners. You don't just want high-purity alcohol, but fairly fresh high-purity alcohols; even small amounts of water can cause splotchiness. I've heard of people going to the extent of buying Everclear or even laboratory-grade alcohols, but I've gotten better (if not great results) from popping open a fresh container of 99%+ isoprophyl alcohol with each project than from the hardware-store grade denatured alcohol unknown purity stuff.
You can run shellac (and almost anything) through a spray system, ranging from an airbrush (at the smallest scale) to a HVLP or airless sprayer (at the largest), if you're having too much of a pain keeping brush strokes down after thinning. Do have to be aggressive with thinner (I've gone >100% thinner) to have it flow well with a lower-psi airbrush. It will dry fast. Do have to clean out the sprayer, but tbh I find it easier cleaning out shellac than enamel paints or any type of stain.
I was just going to use denatured alcohol, as that's what I'd seen or heard of people using. Guess it won't hurt to try a test piece first. Worst case I sand the whole thing down again and start over.
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