sandarac

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Any luthier supplier has mastic and sandarac, and Home Depot carries denatured alcohol.

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  1. noun A coniferous evergreen tree (Tetraclinis articulata) of Spain and northern Africa, having flattened branches, scalelike leaves, and bark that yields a hard brittle translucent resin used in varnishes.
  2. noun The resin of this tree.

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  • Have whoever is doing the restoration just make their own shellac based varnish, maybe with a little sandarac. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Any luthier supplier has mastic and sandarac, and Home Depot carries denatured alcohol. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • 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. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • One ounce white rosin; one half ounce gum sandarac; one half ounce —  The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • 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. —  Handwork in Wood
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  1. Middle English sandaracha, from Latin, red pigment, from Greek sandarakē, realgar.

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  1. Also sandarach, sandarak, and corruptly andarac; from Old French sandarac, sandarache, sandarax, French sandaraque = Spanish Portuguese sandaraca = Italian sandaraca, sandracca, from Latin sandaraca, sanderaca, sandaracha, from Greek σανδαράκη, red sulphuret of arsenic, realgar, a red color, also bee-bread; of Eastern origin: cf. Arabic sandarūs = Persian sandarūs = Hindustani sandarūs, sandaros, sindrūs, sundras, from Sanskrit sindūra, realgar.
 

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