Kusmi #2 Button Lac

Kusmi #2 button lac. The same Kusmi-grade button-form shellac as our #1 grade, sorted at a slightly lower selectivity — meaning a touch more variation in button color and a price that reflects the grade. The same hand-refined cottage process, the same wax-containing structure, the same source.

Most commercial shellac sold today is dewaxed flake — a 20th-century industrial product. Button lac is the older form, the one classical finishing texts describe. The wax is part of the structure, not an impurity to be removed.

Kusmi #2 is the grade for finishers who want pure, traceable button lac at a working price — for shops doing larger volume, for restoration where multiple coats are needed, for any project where the difference between #1 and #2 is invisible in the cured film.

Sourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.