shellac• So we went for a shellacfinish.• This is particularly so with Sennelier ink, which has a binder of acrylic, resins and shellac which dries hard.• What was needed here was a transparent finish, and it is possible to achieve that with clear shellac.• Conventionalshellac records were very brittle; only a few ounces of shearstress would crack them in half.• None of these unbreakable records succeeded in displacingshellac.• With the shellac the colour was all there and more.• Now I have used transparent shellac for many jobs in the past.• Water stains on a ceiling, without deterioration, can be sealed with shellac and the ceiling repainted.
Originshellac
(1600-1700)shell + lac“hard substance produced by an insect”((15-21 centuries)) (from Portugueselaca; → LACQUER1), translating Frenchlaque en écailles“lac in thin flakes”