Originally Posted by luker
geez. I thought, why? then I looked at your picture, then I looked at some others on the web...I think I gotta try it...but gorilla glue, not shellac, not elmers, there are too many temperature and moisture variables...maybe polyurethane or something...just think of all of those little happy beetles dying so that the string on my handlebars won't unravel...the karmic debt...
Hmm, maybe you know something I don't know. I always thought that shellac was made from an excretion of the Lac beetle, not the beetles themselves. Its harvested by scraping the gummy substance from the branches of certain trees, so its a sustainable resource without too much karmic debt. Polyurethane on the other hand, is petro-chemical so its not as eco-friendly as shellac which is alcohol based.