Shellac Archive Update – “The Relative Effect of Structure and Other Factors on the Permeability of Varnish Films”

It’s been a while since I added to the Shellac Archive with Juliane Derry’s very important recent Thesis, so I thought I would dust off another, much older piece of valued research.

Henry Payne and William Howlett Garner, two monumental figures in the workd of coatings technology, co-authored the 1937 paper “The Relative Effect of Structure and Other Factors on the Permeability of Varnish Film” for the Shellac Research Bureau of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.  The BPI phase of the SRB research was the most fertile period of shellac research ever, in my opinion.

I would abstract the contents, but I think the title is pretty self-explanatory.  It does make for an interesting conceptual bookend with Bill Feist’s “Moisture Excluding Effectiveness of Finishes on Wood Surfaces” from the Forest Products Laboratory in 1985.