1. Yes.

2. Could be. I am not sure what those salons use, I heard some of them use hard bonding glues, most people don't use that stuff here, i don't think. I don't think you really want to wear 3-4 weeks at a time, its disgusting.

3. I never used it myself, but it supposed to seal the knots and protect them from shedding etc when you use adhesives. I hear different things, some people don't like it, some do. I have heard it can turn lace into sort of a thinskin.

4. yeah you can, some people do that. Not sure what the drawbacks are though.. There might be a reason why people don't do that often. John would know more than me.

5. I would recommend ordering freestyle, but you could also just indicate it on the template itself with instructions on the order form. I would probably just draw it right on the template itself.. but if u are sending in a unit for copying,, than i guess u can give them instructions. My suggestion is make things the least complicated you can. the more complicated the order the more chances for things to go wrong.

6. For me personally. 91 percent alcohol is fine. I have even used 70 something percent. So u need alcohol, and get a citrus based solvent. There a bunch of them. I hardly even use it, but its good to have for stubborn glue that wont come out. I put the citrus solvent on the residue on the lace, let it soak up until the glue gets gooey than mirror slide it right off. That means rubbing the lace onto a mirror and sliding it. The glue sticks to the mirror. There are variations to this method, including rubbing it on saran wrap, brown paper bags, blown up balloons, foil,, etc etc.

Others might recommend a product called desolve-it. Some soak their unit in it to get all the residue off. I don't use this method.