I would consider contacting the manufacturer of the product.

I wonder if the shine just might disappear on its own. I would continue to rub it out with a clean cloth now and then and wait it out a bit before doing anything more.

I would not continue doing anything to it the laquer has been damaged and now you need to either live with it or get a pro to fix it . A laquer finish would not be my choice for a sding table ever maybe hve it stripped and a good working finish done

Yeah, I am afraid messing with it you will just make it worse, leave it alone or get a furniture refinisher in.

See if there is a Furniture Medic franchise in your area. This is the company that moving companies send for insurance repairs when nice furniture is ruined during moves.

Jan Moyer, you gave some great advice but im not sure what exactly you meant. can you explain it to me, ive sent a message.

are you familiar with the guardsman product?

@ Daniel Gray

For whatever Houzz glitch, private messages are not coming through!

As to the burnish you created in your experiment? It's simply a chemical reaction. Will you achieve perfection with cigarette ashes, or toothpaste or 4000 ( 0000) grit sandpaper? You'd have to define "perfection"

To me, this is like "touching up" a wall with paint. No matter the paint is the exact color, formula, finish. Your best result is to paint the entire wall.

You can contact a local refinisher, you can contact Guardsman, you can test a small area with some ordinary toothpaste on a finger wrapped soft rag, or you can go to a hardware store for a wad of 4000 grit steel wool. That is a "final finish grade" abrasion. However:

If you want a miraculous and perfect finish restore to the look prior to your experiment? It's probably a table refinish in total.

Personally? I find total perfection to be over rated. My bet is no sooner finished, and the reward is someone drags a bowl, and you get a gouge or scratch. : ) ten minutes after the finisher brings the table back into your home.

Can't help with the finish fix, but could you hide it using a table. runner (or probably two for balance)? Amazon.

@Jan Moyer has the product I’ve used removed the lacquer or is it just an oily layer on top of the lacquer that can be removed?

I am a designer, not a chemist. In my trade, when we don't know the definitive answer to any problem? We get a pro in that trade. If your table were in MY clients home? We get on the phone to my wood guy: )

"My client tried to remove a cloudy water ring from her table, and while you didn't craft the table? We need asap advice and a look see.....unless you tell us to go ahead and try,,,,,toothpaste , baking soda, steel wool...?Or we'll buy you lunch if you just come on over"

Use the phone, and use words. Try it : )

Yesh just trying to get info over christmas because the pros are on break

The burnish and the pros will still be around on 1/6/24. When the world reawakens: )

Yeah was just thinking the earlier i hit it the better