At 11:38 PM 07/31/2000 -0500, Daniel wrote: >Hi Y'all, > Has anyone ever tried water-based laquer?. I have and it works >extremely well. It's non-toxic - you can carry a bit of distilled water >and mix up whatever ratio you need on the spot. It seems to set up a lot >faster than spirits also and has almost no odor. True; but one reason I got interested in shellac is that it dissolves readily in alcohol even after it has set up. How do you dissolve water-based lacquer? I think it's good to have an option in case you over-juice. Excess keytop in a hammer can be removed with tons and floods of acetone and time and maybe compressed air, but I think shellac will be a lot easier to get out or move deeper into the hammer, if there is too much of it. Also, in case you need several applications of juice, it seems that it would be better not to _seal_ the hammer, which would keep future doses from sinking in. I think that shellac is more soluble, so it would accommodate repeated juicing. > Along the thread of Vodka, would this have any softening affect > on hard >knuckles? I wonder. I'm guessing probably not, but I'll give it a try >sometime just to see. I think I'd be more likely to brush them hard, and then bolster and/or steam them, maybe. However, some of the crud that people smear on knuckles might be removed by vodka. > Also, I'm guessing some like the Vodka better than >denatured alcohol (for the hammers) or why pay the price? Denatured isn't all that bad, now, though in the past it was almost all methanol, and very toxic. Now it's only 4% methanol. But why settle for that, when something is readily available that is safer? The price difference is minimal, since we use so little of it. I get a new bottle after roughly 3 years, usually. > Interesting info in previous posts on this thread. I've been enjoying it, too. Susan
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