[Jewelry making - Article 00068] - Re: [Orchid] Best solvent for Shellack?

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>    Can anyone point me towards the best solvent for shellack (orange
>    flake). The archives have not proved to be a friendly place to
>    search.

Ethanol.

    What you'll buy as shellac solvent, however is "denatured alcohol",
    which is mostly ethanol but usually has methanol added. But ethanol
    is the actual best solvent. Denatured alcohol has little enough
    denaturing agent that there seems to me no significant difference in
    performace between denatured alcohol, and reagent grade ethanol.
    Especially when things are speeded up by use of a warm ultrasonic,
    denatured alcohol will dissolve that stuff pretty fast. Not quite a
    hot knife through butter, but close. 

Peter

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