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Ultra Pale Shellac Lavender Varnish

Ultra-Pale Shellac Lavender Varnish

$39.95 - $142.95
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Description

Double Carbon Treated Shellac based varnish used for Tintypes, Ambrotypes, and Glass Negatives.

This varnish is made with the lightest shellac flakes available, with a small amount of sandarac resin added for smoothness. The dissolved resin is DOUBLE carbon treated and micro filtered to remove as much additional color and impurities as possible. Only pure 95% ethanol is used to ensure that no harsh denaturants harm the image during the most dreaded step of the wet plate process.  The resin, alcohol and steam distilled French lavender oil are balanced so that the varnish can be applied at room temperature, then heated to dry.   

One of the main advantages of this varnish is that the final coating is harder and dries faster than sandarac.  This means that post varnishing the surface is less likely to be scratched.  The durability and light color makes for beautifully protected plates.

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  • 5
    Ultra pale shellac varnish

    Posted by Dagnabbit Studio (Chris Olsen) on Oct 14th 2025

    Sorry so you know when you've got your plate dried and the exposure is just perfect, but you know it's going to darken up when you use your old standby sanderac? I keep a bottle of this handy because it barely darkens the image at all. It has a very nice luster to it and is extremely easy to work with. You'll have to play with plate temperature because it does not act the same as the other varnish does, but it yields beautiful results.

  • 4
    Ultra-Pale Shellac Lavender Varnish

    Posted by David Clark on Oct 13th 2025

    Works well, taste like crap. Don't ask me how I know,

  • 5
    The best for nearly clear

    Posted by D. Anson Brody on Apr 17th 2024

    This stuff is incredible. If I hand burnish my plates, and pour off into a second bottle I get very bright and near clear results. If I don’t burnish plates look more similar to when plates are wet. Both are great looks. This stuff is easy to flow on a plate too. Great product, #1 recommendation.

  • 4
    Ultra Pale

    Posted by Mark Cornelison on Oct 8th 2023

    I was not very good at the lacquer phase at all, but this lacquer is a little more forgiving, and doesn’t seem to be as dark a lacquer as some of the Sandaracs! I recommend it!

  • 5
    So fresh and so Clear-Clear

    Posted by Eric Thornton on May 29th 2023

    Prefer the tone of this varnish to sandarac- highly recommend reading Brian’s varnish blog/instructions or watching the video he made as his indications differ from traditional sandarac varnishing methods. Awesome as always, thank you!

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