Allan,I signed that guitar and I know it needs some work desparately:-) I was actually making an editorial comment regarding general refinishing of musical instruments.
(This by no means gets me offnthe hook for racting only to the subject heading and not reading the first post before I commented. I will never learn.)
But! A local fiddle fixer for the Syracuse symfanny archestra likes Deft sray laquer for small jobs and its canned counterpart for the big ones. I know Spaw preferes Sear's Better. If I had to chose a French person to polish it I'd pick Leslie Carron.
Don