The Story of Shellac - booklet by Zinsser

[mark mcfarlane]

I find myself using Shellac more frequently so did a little digging...

For anyone interested here's a nice of history of shellac, how it is created and different ways it was and is processed, myths,...

https://www.shellac.net/The%20Story%20of%20Shellac.pdf

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Excelent! Thanks

[John K Jordan]

I find myself using Shellac more frequently so did a little digging...

For anyone interested here's a nice of history of shellac, how it is created and different ways it was and is processed, myths,...

https://www.shellac.net/The%20Story%20of%20Shellac.pdf

Great! I'd like to find a paper version of that for my library (one I didn't have to print!)

I've seen other, older versions of that story, such as this, the 14th reprint originally published in 1913:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/theBarn/Articles/Shellac/Williams,Don-Story_of_Shellac_1913.pdf

I use the shellac-based Mylands friction polish on the lathe. We sometimes think we are using modern techniques but I read an account of a traveler to India in the 1600s - he wrote about watching a man applying friction polish to utility items he made by spinning (I think it was a foot-powered lathe), holding a piece of lac to the spinning surface to apply by by friction. I thought I saved the text, entertaining in the dialect of the time, but can't find it. :(

[Vijay Kumar]

Awesome guys very interesting reading. Do you know that the word lakh is very much used in India even today for 100,000 . Such as , his salary is 5 lakhs!

[mark mcfarlane]

Awesome guys very interesting reading. Do you know that the word lakh is very much used in India even today for 100,000 . Such as , his salary is 5 lakhs!

I did not now that Vijay, thanks.

[Mel Fulks]

There is also the book : Shellac ,It’s Origins and Uses