Duplicolor, general paint, homedepo, wallmart, princess auto, can tier, home hardwear...... Cant find it at any of these..... I spent 3 hrs driving around town till general paint called a whole bunch more and spent 30 min trying to help me....
Where can I find garnet/ruby Shelac on-line or in B.C??! I looked everywhere.
- Thread starter CanadianBaconPancakes
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Found it on there just it cost quite abit of cash!
midnightpossum
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- East Kootneys
Another vote for woodessence
The color of the Dark Garnet is closest to the classic Russian red. To get the classic red look, I first finished the birch stock with Pine Tar (TSC carries it, its used for protecting horse hoof) Pine tar needs to be thinned quite a bit in order to paint it on your stock. Pine tar does not dry well at all, I helped drying using a heat gun, but you need to be careful not to bubble or burn the tar. When its still really warn take a clean rag and wipe the access tar off the stock. Again the tar does not totally dry, it has a slight tacky feel. Next, mix your shellac with denatured alcohol (look up "pound cut for shellac") I added some Iodine to the shellac mix to get the "red" look, mix by feel, test on birch. When mixing Iodine, do a bit (few drops at a time) to get the red your looking for.
I will post the results from my project later today.
I will post the results from my project later today.
I have some threads describing my refinish jobs using the dark garnet shellac, with photos... Let me dig some up and link them here:
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1092724-My-M38-Refinished <--- Post #17 in this thread might be useful to you.
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1088683-Comrads-My-Latest-Project
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/942684-Refinished-SVT-40
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