Machine-Made Lemon Shellac Flake - Lemon #1
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Ships from Waynesboro, Virginia.
The standard bench shellac for over 200 years. If you read about shellac flakes in the old books, Lemon #1 is likely what they mean.
The wax-containing lemon grade, pressed clean and even — a yellow-amber flake with the natural lac wax intact and a consistent, predictable flake every time. The clean counterpart to the handmade flake: same warm tone, same wax-containing film, dependable batch to batch.
Wax-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.
Mixing notes: see the pound cut chart for dry weight per gallon, quart, and pint at the common working cuts.
Lemon is the tone to reach for on any project that wants the wax-containing properties with a clean yellow-amber middle. The classic shellac look. It honestly works well on any wood, cures to a durable finish, and is a favorite of restorers reproducing historical finishes.
Sourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.
