{"title":"Shellac — All Grades","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bysakhi-button-lac","title":"Bysakhi Dark Button Lac","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darker, characterful button with the wax left in — a warm heritage grade for work that wants the shellac to add color, not disappear. Bysakhi runs deeper than the Kusmi buttons: more of the natural lac dye carried through, a richer amber-to-brown in the jar, and real presence on walnut, mahogany, and aged hardwoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBysakhi takes its name from Baisakh, the month of the spring harvest, traditionally gathered from Palas and Ber trees. Genuine Bysakhi has grown scarce, and much of what's sold under the name today is loosely sourced — which is exactly why ours is worth seeking out. The family we buy from supplies Bysakhi only when they can stand behind the crop; when they can't verify the source, they decline it rather than ship something else under the name. What you get here is the real thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eButton lac is the historically authentic form of shellac — the one those texts were written around, before dewaxed flake became the industrial default. It is partially dewaxed in the traditional way, squeezed warm through cloth bags, which leaves roughly two to three percent of the natural wax in the structure. The buttons are produced in small cottage operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixing notes: see the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pound-cut-chart\"\u003epound cut chart\u003c\/a\u003e for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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The intense color is the lac dye itself, concentrated — no pigment or stain is added.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a wax-containing shellac — the natural lac wax left in, as the older forms keep it — which gives the laid-down film more body and warmth. Black reads as a dark amber deepening toward black: color with real presence, for work where you want the shellac to carry tone rather than disappear. Restorers reach for it to match deeply aged, near-black finishes on antique furniture and instruments. Cabinetmakers use it to push the color of dark, figured woods further into shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink of black as a coloring-and-toning shellac first. It is at its best as a color layer for dark work; when the job calls for a clear, protective, or under-topcoat coat, that is what the dewaxed grades are for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixing notes: see the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pound-cut-chart\"\u003epound cut chart\u003c\/a\u003e for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shellac.net","offers":[{"title":"1 Lb","offer_id":52328552759589,"sku":"SHL-FLK-BLACK-1LB","price":58.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1\/2 Lb","offer_id":52328552792357,"sku":"SHL-FLK-BLACK-HLF","price":30.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1\/4 Lb","offer_id":52328552825125,"sku":"SHL-FLK-BLACK-QTR","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/black-shellac-flake-hero_3a877806-621f-4547-9944-e7d64f6f0c92.jpg?v=1779970377"},{"product_id":"bysakhi-dark-seedlac","title":"Bysakhi Dark Seedlac","description":"\u003cp\u003eBysakhi dark seedlac. A deep, naturally dark seedlac in its raw form — lac granules screened and washed, but not melted, stretched, or filtered into flake. The darkest color comes from the largest, dye-rich granules carrying through, the warmth you cannot add back once it has been refined away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeedlac is what the cottage producers start with before turning it into button or flake. Working it is part of the craft — you dissolve, filter, and prepare the cut yourself — and the reward is a shellac in its closest-to-source state, full-bodied and warm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBysakhi takes its name from the month of Baisakh, the spring harvest. Genuine Bysakhi has grown scarce, and we sell only the real crop — the family we buy from declines anything they can't verify as true Bysakhi. Reach for it when you want depth and a rich amber tone: building your own dark working lac, warming a finish, matching an aged piece. Pair with patience and a fine cloth filter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shellac.net","offers":[{"title":"1 Lb","offer_id":52328552923429,"sku":"SHL-SEED-BYSAKHI-1LB","price":58.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/2 Lb","offer_id":52328552956197,"sku":"SHL-SEED-BYSAKHI-HLF","price":30.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/4 Lb","offer_id":52328552988965,"sku":"SHL-SEED-BYSAKHI-QTR","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/bysakhi-dark-seedlac-hero.jpg?v=1779970385"},{"product_id":"dewaxed-beige-shellac-flake","title":"Dewaxed Beige Shellac Flake","description":"\u003cp\u003eDewaxed beige shellac flake. A light-warm mid-tone — a half-step of warmth past blonde, well short of amber. The grade for when neutral reads a touch cool and amber would be too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeige takes its warmth honestly. Color in dewaxed flake comes from the base seedlac and how much activated carbon is used to lighten it; the warmer grades carry a little more of the lac's natural tone rather than being pushed all the way pale. Decolorised with washing soda and activated carbon only — never chemically bleached.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDewaxed flake is shellac with its natural wax separated out, nothing added to take its place. It dries hard and clear, dissolves without the cloudiness waxy grades leave in solution, and sits cleanly under and over other finishes, polyurethane included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeige is the quiet warm cast — a subtle lift on lighter woods, and the bridge between blonde and amber when neither is quite right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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The classic light dewaxed grade and the everyday clear coat — pale enough to leave the color of the wood alone, dewaxed enough to sit cleanly under any topcoat that follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDewaxed flake is shellac with its natural wax separated out, nothing added to take its place. It dries hard and clear, dissolves without the cloudiness waxy grades leave in solution, and sits cleanly under and over other finishes, polyurethane included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlonde is the working default for a lot of benches — pale woods, French polishing, sanding sealer, and any project where the finish should disappear into the wood rather than announce itself. 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Decolorised with washing soda and activated carbon only — never chemically bleached.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDewaxed flake is shellac with its natural wax separated out, nothing added to take its place. It dries hard and clear, dissolves without the cloudiness waxy grades leave in solution, and sits cleanly under and over other finishes, polyurethane included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGarnet is the grade for warmth amber can't reach — the patina of older walnut, mahogany, and aged hardwoods, and restoration work that needs to match a film that's lived. Worked thin, it brings up the figure of the wood rather than covering it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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Color in dewaxed flake is set by the base seedlac and how far it's lightened with activated carbon; amber keeps more of that natural tone instead of being carried all the way to pale. Decolorised with washing soda and activated carbon only — never chemically bleached.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDewaxed flake is shellac with its natural wax separated out, nothing added to take its place. It dries hard and clear, dissolves without the cloudiness waxy grades leave in solution, and sits cleanly under and over other finishes, polyurethane included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmber is the working middle of the dewaxed range. Walnut, oak, and other hardwoods take it cleanly, and it's the grade most finishers default to when the project calls for shellac and the color decision is still open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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Activated carbon can lift the tone the rest of the way, but it cannot rescue a lesser base — the clarity in platina is in the seedlac before any of it reaches the pot. That is why it sits at the top of the dewaxed range: the lightest grades take the best raw material and the most work to reach. Decolorised with washing soda and activated carbon only — never chemically bleached, so there is no residual chlorine and no shortened shelf life to manage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDewaxed flake is shellac with its natural wax separated out, nothing added to take its place. It dries hard and clear, dissolves without the cloudiness waxy grades leave in solution, and sits cleanly under and over other finishes, polyurethane included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlatina is the grade for pale woods you want to keep pale — maple, sycamore, holly — and for instruments and conservation work where the finish must not shift the color underneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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It dries hard and clear, dissolves without the cloudiness waxy grades leave in solution, and sits cleanly under and over other finishes, polyurethane included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuper blonde is the working choice for fine furniture, instrument soundboards, and any project where the shellac needs to be invisible in tone but present in build — one of the most-reached-for grades on the bench.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shellac.net","offers":[{"title":"1 Lb","offer_id":52328554135845,"sku":"SHL-DE-SPBLND-1LB","price":68.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1\/2 Lb","offer_id":52328554168613,"sku":"SHL-DE-SPBLND-HLF","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1\/4 Lb","offer_id":52328554201381,"sku":"SHL-DE-SPBLND-QTR","price":19.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/dewaxed-super-blonde-shellac-flake-hero.jpg?v=1779970432"},{"product_id":"hand-made-yellow-shellac-flake","title":"Handmade Lemon Yellow Shellac Flake","description":"\u003cp\u003eHandmade lemon yellow shellac flake. A wax-containing flake made by traditional cottage methods rather than industrial press — closer to the form the classical finishing texts assume than any modern dewaxed grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWax-containing means the natural lac wax has been left in, and these flakes hold more of it than button lac does. The wax is part of the structure, not an impurity. Finishers have always favored wax-containing shellacs for their build and the warmth of the cured film. The handmade flakes carry that quality with the character of cottage production — small batch, hand-broken, each flake a little different in size and shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lemon-yellow tone reads warm but not red — a clean gold that sits naturally on most hardwoods and complements aged finishes without darkening them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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It is what most finishers mean when they say \"good button lac.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat sets #1 apart is the washing. The buttons are double-washed — a second cycle with washing soda, about an extra hour over the standard grade — and sorted to finer granules. Each pass lifts more of the natural lac dye and more of the field impurities, and each pass costs yield in the recovery. The result reads warm honey in alcohol, builds with a few well-laid passes, and rubs out the way the old texts describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eButton lac is the historically authentic form of shellac — the one classical finishing texts were written around, before dewaxed flake became the 20th-century industrial default. It is partially dewaxed in the traditional way, the buttons squeezed warm through cloth bags by hand, which leaves roughly two to three percent of the natural wax in the structure. The buttons are still produced in small cottage operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixing notes: see the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pound-cut-chart\"\u003epound cut chart\u003c\/a\u003e for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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That means a slightly deeper, warmer color and a working price, with the same pure, traceable lac in the jar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the grade for the bench that goes through shellac. Larger restoration jobs, multi-coat builds, French polishing where you cut fresh sessions often — anywhere the difference between #1 and #2 disappears into the cured film and you would rather have the volume. The single wash and single soda addition are the only difference; the lac itself is the same Kusmi material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eButton lac is the historically authentic form of shellac — the one classical finishing texts describe, before dewaxed flake became the industrial default. It is partially dewaxed in the traditional way, squeezed warm through cloth bags, which leaves roughly two to three percent of the natural wax in the structure. The buttons are produced in small cottage operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixing notes: see the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pound-cut-chart\"\u003epound cut chart\u003c\/a\u003e for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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Here it is in its closest-to-source form: granules that have been screened and washed clean of sand, dust, and wood, but not yet melted into button or stretched into flake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeedlac is where the refiner begins. Working it yourself is part of the craft — you dissolve it, filter it through cloth, and prepare the cut to your own standard. Nothing about the shellac has been reduced or simplified for you. What you pour is what came off the tree, washed and screened, and nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause it starts from Kusum lac, the golden color carries a warmth and clarity that lesser seedlacs cannot reach. For finishers who want to build their own working lac from the best raw material available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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The clean counterpart to the handmade flake: same warm tone, same wax-containing film, dependable batch to batch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWax-containing means the natural lac wax has been left in, and these flakes hold more of it than button lac does. The wax gives the cured film a warmth the dewaxed grades cannot quite match, and the machine press gives you an even, uniform flake that dissolves cleanly to cut. The solution reads slightly cloudy in the bottle — that is the wax, doing its work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixing notes: see the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pound-cut-chart\"\u003epound cut chart\u003c\/a\u003e for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLemon is the tone to reach for when amber is too much — pale, cool-reading hardwoods, and any project that wants the wax-containing build with a clean yellow-amber middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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Every one of those steps lifts color and lifts purity, and every one costs yield. The result is the lightest, cleanest, most uniform golden button on the bench.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the grade for the work where the shellac itself is part of what you see — fine furniture, instrument tops and bodies, the pale heirloom finish where you want warmth and clarity and nothing muddying it. It sits at or above our Kusmi #1 for purity, with the even golden tone that gives the variety its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eButton lac is the historically authentic form of shellac — the one classical finishing texts were written around. It is partially dewaxed in the traditional way, squeezed warm through cloth bags, which leaves roughly two to three percent of the natural wax in the structure. The buttons are produced in small cottage operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time. Genuine Kusmi sticklac of this quality is harvested in small winter volumes and does not come around often.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixing notes: see the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pound-cut-chart\"\u003epound cut chart\u003c\/a\u003e for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. 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