I guess you do learn something new everyday. If you thought applying shellac was labor intensive... watch this video about how it is obtained and processed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQcQ0yuekZ0

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Wow. That's pretty cool. And all this time I thought shellac came from hardware stores.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Processed sap from the Lac Tree.

The nicest finish you'll ever see is one which is French Polished... wanna talk about Wax On, Wax Off...

Now on to Neatsfoot oil...

cheers!

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The best Shellac comes from Chicago.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejSIQYH7z8&hd=1

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Close...according to the video, shellac is a resin secreted by the Lac bug that attaches to and feeds on the sap of a few tree species in India.

Floyd,

I listened to the whole song; and although I can say I like a lot of different types of music I think it would take a long time me to grow to like that band.

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Floyd beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing. Two of my favorite bands come from the Chicago area. Shellac and Local H.

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truly a premise that comes straight from an underground Japanese comic.

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Yea... processed by the Lac Beetle... just like Kopi luwak coffee beans (the World's Most Expensive), are 'processed' by the Asian Palm Civet... (if you're up on 'The Bucket List')...

cheers!

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'10 Heritage H-535
'99 Martin DC-1E
'13 Lanikai Tenor Ukulele

so, shellac is bug poo? nothing like bug poo to shine up some expensive furniture!

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~Dan

"Bug poop" isn't quite right. Lac beetles secrete it to form tunnel-like tubes on the bark of the trees that they suck the sap out of, but they also poop out waste. Bees secrete wax, but they also poop; cows secrete milk but they also poop -- it's sort of like that.

Shellac is a common food ingredient. Chocolate covered raisins/peanuts -- notice that they're shiny and don't melt/stick together? Like many candies they're coated in "confectioner's glaze" which is pure shellac. Fruits, pharmeceutical pills and vitamins are often coated with it. On ingredient lists it's also called "E904", "resinous glaze", "pure food glaze", "natural glaze".

A close relative of the Lac beetle is the Cochineal beetle, which is ground up whole to make a common red food dye ("cochineal", "carmine", "natural red dye").

That's the stuff that Starbucks wimped out and stopped using: "EEEEUUUUUWWWW! You're putting ground up BUGS in my food!"

Hey, it's a "natural" ingredient! Or would you prefer some artificial color?

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ah, i see. now i want some raisins.

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I love this forum..not a day goes by that you dont learn something! For some reason I thought shellac was a petroleum product of some sort..and now I know its bug poo..amazing..

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so I am, basically , eating bug poop?