General Finishing Info

[pete00]

Trying to increase my knoledge of finishing, and came upon this items.

did you know shellac is used to coat pills....[?]


This list all the types of finish properties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_finishing


Look at second chart in Info & techniques section
http://www.behlen.co.uk/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=TOOLS

 

[KenV]

It is also used in the hard coating on candies such as M&Ms --

 

[pete00]

Originally posted by KenV
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It is also used in the hard coating on candies such as M&Ms --

so that means i can eat and finish my pens at the same time
with M&M's [][][][]

 

[RussFairfield]

And shellac is used to seal the vacuum inside of a light bulb.

The glaze on cake frosting is shellac.

And it is used as the time release coating on pills.

 

[arioux]

so that means i can eat and finish my pens at the same time
with M&M's

I tough we were already using MM [][][]

Alfred

 

[Ron in Drums PA]

And the best thing of all is... shellac is bug spit!

 

[pete00]

Originally posted by Ron in Drums PA
<br />And the best thing of all is... shellac is bug spit!

bug spit!.....ROFLMAO..[][][][][]...that hurts...gotta go bathroom now...

 

[Daniel]

M&M's??? and I thought I had problems with micro mesh melting.
you could end up with some very colorful blanks that way.