How To Make and Use Your Own Shellac Wood Finish | The Folding Rule Woodworking Shop | Part 3
And we'll clean up the other one
So remember shellac is a great
Finish to using the shop. It's very easy to [use]. It's great for beginners and professionals alike
It has a wonderful history to learn about
So here. We're just going to take up this last bit of slack in
This syringe. I'm just going to rinse this syringe out back and forth just like that. That's pretty much all it takes
There's hardly any slack in that syringe
Just take that syringe apart now and clean it and it's ready to go for the next application
So it's been a couple hours, and I've been coming by and shaking up this shellac. Everything is dissolved at this point
There's just a few granules left on the bottom that are being a little resistant so just to review what we did today. We
First of all mixed shellac from dry Flakes, we made a one-pound cut of amber shellac
We also reduced or diluted a pre-existing cut now again that can be from
shellac that you've mixed and you want to make a lighter cut or
from shellac that you've purchased from the woodworking store or home improvement store in this case we use to pound cut
D wax schleck and reduced it to a half pound cut which [is] also called a spit coat?
So let's go through filtering this shellac into its final container
[okay] to Filter the shellac into its final container
we're going to use the filter and you can either use these filters that you can buy at the paint store that have a
small filter screen built into the bottom or a
Lot of us have a medium-sized plastic fill funnel like this laying around our shop garage, or kitchen
if you use this type of device all you need to do is take a coffee filter or
sometimes I take a piece of regular paper towel fold it in half fold it in half again and
Then I just cut in Arc
across that filter paper
Or what's going to be our filter paper open it up put it in the funnel and now you've got a nice
filter to filter your shellac
It's helpful to have some kind of support for that device
And what I use in my shop is a piece of cedar. I have a small hole bored in the edge of it
Which accepts an aluminum Rod?
And I just have a cap on the end just for safety and basically what I do is
I just run that Rod through the hole and the funnel
put it in the
Cedar block and then I just see is one of these little badge clips
I think all of us have seen these from the different badges from work or wherever I use that just to stabilize the
Funnel you just get it into position
slide that clip up and you're ready to go that way you've [got] to hands-free to hold the bottle and pour your
Unfiltered shellac and you don't have to worry about things moving around
I've been using this same filter for quite a while
And I [just] flush it out with some alcohol at the very end and it's ready to go for the next batch
So again I've been shaking this slack up for the last two two and a half hours
it's all pretty much dissolved at this point and
Once it's filtered
It's ready to go for whenever I need to use it
And all we're doing right now is just getting out any unresolved particles and any potential impurities that would
Compromise our finish usually not very much comes up in this filter, but it's a good idea to do
and I'll just end up wrinting this out with some alcohol and
Use it next time [you] mix up a batch of shellac
Now as I'm looking in this filter, and I'll pull it off and hold it up to the camera
Hopefully, you'll be able to see it there actually is
some small Debris
That I filtered out
And hopefully this will not give everybody
Motion sickness, but you'll see in the bottom there's some little black granules that we filtered out all
Right well, I'm going to wind up this episode
Don't forget
label your slack
Because it has about a six month shelf life, and you [don't] want to
finish a great project and apply some shellac that
Is possibly not going to dry well so six months?
Get rid of it make another batch
Again, this is a real fun finish to use in the shop. Well. I'm going to end up this episode right now
we did use a
Household device in the shop a coffee or spice grinder
kind of fun
Tune in next time and we're going [to] go over another application for another household device
This is a little hot water warming pot and no, it's not to keep my coffee warm
Come back again looking forward to having you back in the shop