Did you know shellac is a resin secreted by an insect? It’s scraped from the branches of trees, melted down and formed into thin sheets from which the flakes are created. If that didn’t blow your mind, try this: it takes about 1.5 million lac bugs to make one pound of shellac. ...
Because Pau Ferro can betroublesome to finish with oil-based reactive finishes, it’s been my standard procedure with most of my projects to apply a few seal coats ofshellac. These coats dry in seconds (or minutes for subsequent coats) and do a great job of prepping the project for the ...
Shellac is a resin that the female lac bug secretes. When processed, it is turned into dry flakes which are dissolved in industrial alcohol to make liquid shellac. is something different, and the company that manufactures this product asks...