what is varnish, and if varnish isn’t oil (as so many seem to believe) then why do we talk of linseed, tung, and even soya oil in our descriptions of varnish?
I’m glad you asked! You can’t make varnish without oil—oil is one of the primary ingredients in making varnish. But, because varnish is made from oil does not mean that varnish is oil. Let’s consider a simple analogy. Bread is made from a number of ingredients; flour, salt, sugar, eggs, milk, yeast, etc. Each of these separate ingredients is easy to identify before all are combined, put into an oven, and baked. However, when the loaf of bread is removed from the oven it is much different than it was when it went in—it has been changed; modified if you will, by the cooking process. We can no longer identify the milk, flour, salt, sugar, or any of the other ingredients used by the baker. Each has combined with the others forming a new product that we call bread. Bread did not exist before the ingredients were combined and cooked. Bread is the product of the cooking process—the individual ingredients, while contributing to the end result, are now gone. It should also be pointed out that i
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