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Schellac Recipes

The document provides recipes for various shellac-based varnishes including piano varnish, palisander varnish for wood, Paris wood varnish, polishing varnishes, sandarac varnishes, a shellac matte finish, and blackboard varnish. The recipes specify the ingredients, quantities of shellac, resins, solvents, and optional additives needed to produce each type of varnish.

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Schellac Recipes

The document provides recipes for various shellac-based varnishes including piano varnish, palisander varnish for wood, Paris wood varnish, polishing varnishes, sandarac varnishes, a shellac matte finish, and blackboard varnish. The recipes specify the ingredients, quantities of shellac, resins, solvents, and optional additives needed to produce each type of varnish.

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Shellac-Recipes

From the
„Rezepttaschenbuch für die Farben- und Lackindustrie,
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. Stuttgart, 1949“

KREMER PIGMENTE order numbers are added in brackets

Piano-Varnish
5 kg fine orange Shellac (60410 )
1 kg Benzoin ( 60250 )
0,5 kg Mastic ( 60050 )
2 kg Larch Turpentine ( 62000, 62010 )
24 kg Ethyl Alcohol ( 70800 )

Palisander Varnish for Varnishing Wood


4 kg Ruby Shellac ( 60480 )
1 kg thick Turpentine ( 60320, 62040 )
19 kg Ethyl Alcohol ( 70800 )
3% Castor Oil ( 73670 )
dissolve in the filtered varnish:
¾% Fuchsin ( 94110 )
¾% Bismarckbrown and ( 94312 )
1/8 % Blue, reddish ( 94030 )

Paris Wood Varnish


for varnishing fine wood ware, also suitable for last coat of polished surfaces, especially small
objects
5 kg fine orange Shellac ( 60410 )
1,5 kg Larch Turpentine or Gum Elemi ( 62000 – 62050 )
25 kg Ethyl alcohol ( 70800 )
Use Lavender Oil to scent varnish, ( 73750 )
for transluscent varnish: bleached shellac

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Dr. Georg Kremer, Dipl.-Chemiker, Farbmühle, DE-88317 Aichstetten/Allgäu, Phone +49-7565-914480, Fax +49-7565-1606
kremer-pigmente@t-online.de, www.kremer-pigmente.com
Polishing Varnishes
also called Russian or Petersburg Varnish, Spread Varnish (because it’s applied with a brush),
for immediate varnishing of smooth wooden objects or for a last coat for objects varnished with a
base coat, especially small wood ware.
a) Brown Ia:
5 kg fine orange Shellac ( 60410 )
1 kg thick Turpentine ( 60320 – 62040 )
18 kg Ehtyl Alcohol ( 70800 )

b) Brown IIa:
5 kg fine orange Shellac ( 60410 )
2,5 kg Gum Accaroides, red ( 37080 )
2,5 kg Gum Accaroides, yellow ( not available, alternative 37050/37060)
3 kg thick Turpentine ( 60320 – 62040 )
26 kg Ehtyl Alcohol ( 70800 )
may be darkened with about 1% brown tar dye ( 94410 , 94312 )

c) Yellow:
2 kg fine orange Shellac ( 60410 )
4 kg bleached Shellac ( 60440 )
1 kg Larch Turpentine ( 62000 )
18 kg Ethyl Alcohol ( 70800 )

d) Clear:
4 kg bleached Shellac ( 60450 )
1 kg Larch Turpentine ( 62000 )
18 kg Ethyl Alcohol ( 70800 )

e) Black:
dye recipe „Brown Ia or IIa“ with about 3% Nigrosine ( 94000 )

Sandarac Varnishes
to use on paper (without priming made of gelatine or glue), wood, pictures, leather and other
textiles
4 kg Sandarac ( 60100 )
1,5 kg Gum Elemi ( 62050 ), Larch Turpentine ( 62000 ) , thick Turpentine ( 60320 – 62040 )
9 kg Ethyl Alcohol ( 70800 )

The amount of Ethyl Alcohol may vary, due to the impurities of the Sandarac
A cheaper alternative to the Sandarac is the use of Manila Copal (soluble in Ethyl Alcohol) , which
can be used in any proportion

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Dr. Georg Kremer, Dipl.-Chemiker, Farbmühle, DE-88317 Aichstetten/Allgäu, Phone +49-7565-914480, Fax +49-7565-1606
kremer-pigmente@t-online.de, www.kremer-pigmente.com
Shellac Matte Finish
for applying on hard wood furniture (especially oak or nut wood)
The finish is applied with a brush and rubbed into the pores with a cloth. Even the surface
becomes matte.
6 kg fine orange Shellac ( 60410 )
16 kg Ehtyl Alcohol ( 70800 ). Slowly add the wax-turpentine solution (paste) to the unfiltered
Shellac solution and blend
2 kg yellow Beeswax ( 62210 ) , dissolved warm in
5 kg Turpentine ( 70010 )

In case the product became grainy, grind it thoroughly

Blackboard Varnish, black, for wooden black boards


5 kg Gum Accaroides, red ( 37080 )
1 kg Manila Copal (soluble in Ethyl Alcohl) ( 60150 )
9 kg Ethyl Alcohol ( 70800 )
0,25 kg Spirit of Ammonia (add after the filtration) ( 64700)

Grind with 3 kg Vine Black ( 47000 ); after grinding, add 1,5 kg very fine Tripoli ( 99920, 99930 ) in
order to roughen the surface.
It is best to add the Tripoli to the varnish as follows: Pour the Tripoli into the packaging container,
add some varnish, stir well and add rest of the varnish.
Before using the varnish, stir the varnish thoroughly in order to re-blend the sediment (Tripoli).

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Dr. Georg Kremer, Dipl.-Chemiker, Farbmühle, DE-88317 Aichstetten/Allgäu, Phone +49-7565-914480, Fax +49-7565-1606
kremer-pigmente@t-online.de, www.kremer-pigmente.com

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