The Hollow
A History of Lac Turning
The paper trail behind coloring wood with a stick of lac on the lathe runs from a traveler’s account of 1596 to a Victorian dictionary to the workshops still doing...
A History of Lac Turning
The paper trail behind coloring wood with a stick of lac on the lathe runs from a traveler’s account of 1596 to a Victorian dictionary to the workshops still doing...
The Wax Was Never the Problem
A can-label warning from the polyurethane companies, three careful books, one convenient product, and twenty years of forum posts: how a narrow rule turned into “always,” and what the rule...
The Wax Was Never the Problem
A can-label warning from the polyurethane companies, three careful books, one convenient product, and twenty years of forum posts: how a narrow rule turned into “always,” and what the rule...
Lac Turning, In Practice — How to Use Friction-...
The lac-turnery technique of Channapatna, at your own lathe: pressure, the burnishing leaf, and the smallest dab of oil there is.
Lac Turning, In Practice — How to Use Friction-...
The lac-turnery technique of Channapatna, at your own lathe: pressure, the burnishing leaf, and the smallest dab of oil there is.
Penny a Stick: A Brief History of Burn-in Sticks
Victorian cabinetmakers called it beaumontage and bought it for a penny a stick. A short history of the shellac burn-in stick, and the one numbered color line still made the...
Penny a Stick: A Brief History of Burn-in Sticks
Victorian cabinetmakers called it beaumontage and bought it for a penny a stick. A short history of the shellac burn-in stick, and the one numbered color line still made the...
Shellac Solvents
The chemistry of shellac solvents, honestly — ethanol, methanol, isopropyl, denatured alcohol and the Everclear myth. And why gummy shellac is almost never a solvent problem.
Shellac Solvents
The chemistry of shellac solvents, honestly — ethanol, methanol, isopropyl, denatured alcohol and the Everclear myth. And why gummy shellac is almost never a solvent problem.
Chestnut Hollow
Why we named the brand after a tree that refuses to finish dying — and what the Chestnut Hollow label commits to.
Chestnut Hollow
Why we named the brand after a tree that refuses to finish dying — and what the Chestnut Hollow label commits to.