No more shellac at Rockler

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205 days ago

I stopped in at Rockler today. I picked up one of their 2 oz bags of shellac flakes (I want to try the “garnet” ones). And one of the employees showed me a memo they had gotten that Rockler stores were no longer going to sell shellac. Other than Zinsser in a can. The memo said that Rockler was having a really hard time getting shellac and that it was disappearing from the market.

Just thought I’d share the news. I hope this doesn’t mean there’s some kind of shellac shortage and that shellac will become hard to find and more expensive.

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NiteWalker home \| projects \| blog 1467 posts in 743 days #1 posted 205 days ago	I doubt shellac is disappearing from the market. Maybe rockler’s market, but not in general. A good source for shellac. -- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet.
Arminius home \| projects \| blog 219 posts in 1969 days #2 posted 205 days ago	The past two years have seen very poor lac harvests, especially this past one. Should bounce back.
DaleM home \| projects \| blog 800 posts in 1550 days #3 posted 204 days ago	Yep, it’s the lac harvests from what I understand too. I was picking up paint at the local lumber/hardware store here a couple weeks ago and the guy there said prices would probably be close to double within the year because of the shortage. He keeps himself fairly educated on all things having to do with painting and finishing from what I can tell, so I will assume he knows what he’s talking about. -- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

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