A brief walk through of cooking oil varnish. Also putting on the first coat of varnish on the violin.
Ingredient Weight Unit
Damar 150grams
Calophony (pine resin) 100grams
Linseed 213grams
Liquid wood ash 250grams
Slacked Line 0.6teaspoon
Gum Turpentine 125grams
Steps
1 Boil Linseed oil for 1.5 hours - darken and thicken.
2 Burn 250 grams of maple and spruce
3 Put ash in coffee filter and filter 250 grams of water through it.
4 Damar & Calaphany in pot. Bring to 100
5 Bring to 170 and add liquid ash and slacked lime. Keep stirring
6 Boil off water
7 Bring to 280 for 10 minutes
8 Add linssed oil
9 Bring to 300 for 30 minutes and conduct string test
10 Heat turps to 100
11 Add turps while stirring
12 Let cool and filter through pantyhose while still warm
Please see http://keithhillharpsichords.com/ for source of varnish recipe and other information.
w: http://www.davidirelandstrings.com/
Music: Beethoven - String Trio in D Major, Op. 9, No. 2
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