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Originally Posted by RedPine
Call me crazy but I would think this could be as simple as contacting a furniture repair/restoration place from the phone book. Seems like they could just take a look at it, tell you exactly what needs to be done then quote you a price.
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Thank you Wes, I feel like I have been talking to my dog, tongue hanging out, tail wagging, lights on but no one home. Furniture repair and restoration is what I have been doing for the last forty years and what I am telling them here is the truth. You are right the best thing would be to take it to a professional and get an opinion BUT ask them if they work with Catalyzed lacquers. If they say they don't use that stuff take it somewhere else.
There is one thing you can do that wont hurt the finish that might tell you what you are dealing with. Take a cotton swab, dip it in a little bit of denatured alcohol and dab it on the spots. If the spot seems to disappear as to color, then you are dealing with a regular organic lacquer, if the spot remains discolored then you are dealing with a catalyzed lacquer.
As to filling these defects you can use a soft fill but you will get a shiny spot when you are done, if you use a hard fill, aka a burn in you will get a shiney spot that will rise up on you or shrink depending on how much you fool around with it.
In all likely hood you are dealing with a 20 sheen pre-cat lacquer and the top will have to be re-coated to make the repair disappear.