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Everclear 190 proof is the best mixer for Shellac flakes.

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I’ll stick up for Everclear. The denaturing chemicals in denatured alcohol smell bad and give me a headache. Grain alcohol smells sweet and does not give me a headache. It’s an easy choice, for me. If you are referring to the color of the shellac with different alcohols, I don’t have a comment on that. My preference is just about how my body reacts to the chemical.

And nice to have around too when you get thirsty

We've had students bring up moonshine before too, great stuff I loved it.

It’s Spirytus Rektyfikowany for me but the principle is the same

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It's the reluctance, magnetic or otherwise.

And a left handed one at that.

There is a stone pillar in the old market in Cremona that has the official 'Cremona foot' engraved on it. Out of town folks selling cloth and the like had to conform to that measurement. Some violin makers insist that, since Strad et al used that unit of measure we should as well. The claim is that many measurements on the violin come out even in Cremona inches, making it easy to preserve the 'correct' proportions of parts, while using metric measures or (heaven forfend!) English inches will just confuse things.

Back in the '50s, I think, one of the frats at MIT got a pledge good and drunk and used him to measure the length of the Mass. Avenue bridge over the Charles river, or so the story goes. They marked the bridge in 'Smoots' (his name), and numbered it every ten units: it's 365 Smoots and one ear from end to end. They keep a 'standard Smoot', and use it to re-mark the bridge once a year. Joggers find the markings very convenient in a fog...

I used to get missives from time to time from a fellow who insisted that the way to get strings to work well was to harmonize the length with the pitch. That is (iirc), you have to get the speed of the bending wave in the string to equal the scale length. I kept trying to convince him that 'cm/sec' is a different thing than 'cycles/sec', and at any rate, if you change from cm to inches you've got a whole different equation. Besides which, that would only apply to one string. No matter, this was the formula for perfection.