Real Amber Varnish
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his varnish is produced after old recipes and from original raw materials, i.e. real amber is processed.Applied as furniture but also as floor varnish it achieves a high degree of hardness for a natural varnish just as the old amber varnish did. Beyond that it has a good filling quality with the beautiful gloss and color of light amber.
After drying the varnish is antistatic and non-toxic.
Ingredients: real raw amber from Palmnicken, woodoil standoil/copal-cooking, lacquer linseed oil, linseed oil standoil, castor standoil. woodoil standoil orange peel turpentine, isoaliphate and a blend of the dry substances calcium, cobalt and zirconium.
Application instructions: the undiluted varnish should be applied in three coats on perfectly prepared surface with brush or roller. Drying times in normal environment conditions approx. 24 hours. upcoming wood fibres require sanding between the coats. Give cork floors or very absorbent wood a rich and perhaps additional coat. Hardwoods like oak and beech as well as stone floors must be given a first coat thinned with turpentine oil (up to 30%).
Coverage: approx. 1.0 l/10mē per coat .from real amber
Amber is the fossil resin of long since gone down conifers. Similar to cauricopal it probably came out from their roots. It must have flown as a soft substance as sometimes there are inclusions of insects and plants. Millions of years of impact of water, pressure and warmth have made the amber solid and hard.- Amber is found in peat and amber stores all over northern Europe and washed ashoreon some coasts of the North and Baltic Sea. There it is mainly worked to jewels. In East Prussian Samland, at Kraxtepellen near Palmnicken the Prussian amber works used to mine the amber containing blue soil. In 1913 it was reported that 8oo ooo waggon loads were extracted each containing 500kg of blue soil bringing in 472 tons of raw amber. With this raw amber an amber varnish used to be produced. What made this varnish stand out was its marvellous color. It can still be admired today on the floors and furniture in castles and stately homes. When clearing up an old varnish plant in Celle at the end of 1988 we purchased 200kg of amber from Palmnicken and were then able to produce the old amber varnish. Now there are first offers of mined blue earth from Poland and Russia. So the King of Varnishes will also be available in furure.