oil varnish
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Of course I mean oil varnish, but am apt to forget this age of cheapness, which flies to easily put on, quick-drying, cheap spirit.
From Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. by Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson
Therefore, I shall draw your attention to the use of oil varnish, utterly discarding that of spirit.
From Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. by Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson
Then stir in five ounces of glycerine, ten ounces of turpentine, and five ounces of linseed oil varnish.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
Rembrandt, from motives of economy, may have employed the scarcely less durable common "vernix" or sandarac oil varnish; and for certain effects may have reckoned on its tint.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
Did they use oil varnish, our successors would at all events reap the benefit, if not ourselves.
From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Pearce
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