Warmth aids the combination of ingredients such as sandarac and spirit of wine; an even stronger heat is needed when adding turpentine. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
From this time, and during many ages, the linseed-oil varnish, though composed of simpler materials (such as sandarac and mastic resin boiled in the oil), alone appears in the recipes hitherto brought to light. ". From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
One ounce white rosin; one half ounce gum sandarac; one half ounce. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The translator, in a note, offers a conjecture, not without its probability, that it may have been sandarac, the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
A good waterproof wood polish is made thus: 1 pint alcohol, 2 oz. gum benzoin, 1/4 oz. gum sandarac, 1/4 oz. gum anime. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Argan, kharob, and lotus, with the help of a few of the "arar" or gum sandarac trees, shut off the view to the right and left. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
To imitate ground glass, use a composition of sandarac, 2-1/2 ounces; mastic, 1/2 ounce; ether, 24 ounces; and benzine, 16 ounces. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Other gums, as mastic, dammar, sandarac, and even resin are sometimes mixed with copal to cheapen the product or to cause more rapid drying. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
If you would have your varnish brilliant, use much sandarac -- it makes certainly a very hard varnish -- it is difficult to combine it with oil. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
A good can varnish is made by dissolving 15 parts of shellac, and adding thereto 2 parts of Venice turpentine, 8 parts of sandarac, and 75 parts of spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Any luthier supplier has mastic and sandarac, and Home Depot carries denatured alcohol. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
Always the eraser and the sandarac, the same inkstand, the same pens, and the same companions. From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
Have whoever is doing the restoration just make their own shellac based varnish, maybe with a little sandarac. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
After effecting the erasure, the spot is often rubbed over with a powdered alum or gum sandarac, or coated with gelatin or size. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
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It flexes, obviously, and the spirit varnish that Gary proposes, with sandarac, would mimic it, and would of course adhere and build, but I wonder if it's as tough as the old Gibson varnishes. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
For hardening, sandarac has its place and usefulness, although, as with the naturally soft gums and resins which return to their original condition after the solvent has evaporated, great care must be taken to use a very small proportion. From Wordnik.com. [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference
A mixture of sandarac and shellac will result in an extremely hard and almost insoluble varnish, a very undesirable covering for a musical instrument of any kind as it wears badly, that is, suddenly and harshly with a rough fractured edge, instead of the gentle thinning-away under usage, seen with a delicate yielding material. From Wordnik.com. [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference
On the white surface thus prepared, the colors, ground finely with linseed oil, were applied, according to the advice of Theophilus, in not less than three successive coats, and finally protected with amber or sandarac varnish: each coat of color being carefully dried by the aid of heat or in the sun before a second was applied, and the entire work before varnishing. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
The appearance was neutralized by the red sandarac varnish, and pictures executed in the manner described must have looked better before it was removed. ". From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
1 / 10 part sandarac. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
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