Ask Eli, in our feeback section, any questions you may have about your furniture or any of your other valued art objects. When wax dries it becomes hard and therefore difficult to buff properly. Apply the wax to small sections at a time and buff as you go along.
Oil attracts dust.
It does not repell it. Shellac prepared with denatured alcohol will spoil in about 6 months. Old shellac will stay tacky on a surface as opposed to fresh shellac which dries in about 10 minutes or less.