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I bought some pale boiled linseed oil by diggers from Masters to soften the timber for some wooden screws I was making as I didn't want to use my Tung oil for it but then it dawned on me what difference if any is between diggers and Liberon's version.
Other than Libron name and the fact that it's around 6 times more expensive here in Australia there probably isn't much difference at all.
Thanks Ubeaut, I've never understood the pricing structure in this country but comparing to $12 pale boiled linseed oil to $56 I think Liberon is makes you want to ask the question why? I bought 1kg of blonde shellac for $40 and I can the same weight of orange shellac for the same price yet 250g else where costs about $60 and these guys that sell them cheaper aren't your box box store types either.
The prices are often dependant on country of origin. Libron UK costs a lot to get it out here and depends on the exchange rate roughly double +. Then there are import duties, freight, dangerous goods surcharges, etc, etc, etc by the time it gets here a $2 item ends up being a $5 - $20 item depending on how many items you bring in. Then it has to be wholesaled to a reseller and a profit put on for the wholesaler and the retailer, etc, etc,etc... Get the picture.
Shellac has been in crisis the last 3 years with the price soaring due to almost 3 years of crop failures and then some price gouging at the end of the shortage. What used to cost around AU$18,000 to bring into the country went up to well over AU$30,000+. Good news is the price from India is now coming back down a bit and there should in the next 12 months be a reduction in price somewhat as the old very expensive stuff runs out and the new cheaper stuff comes back in.... Hopefully.
The price of our orange shellac went up to $66 retail (incl gst) a lot less wholesale and the only reason it was at that price and not much higher is because we had a very wise partner in crime who purchased almost 1/3rd of the worlds supply just as it had it's first price rise. This was housed in Mildura in his refrigerated units and in Geelong in our refrigerated container for almost 2.5 years to keep it as fresh as the day it was made. We have had one other shipment in since then which was dearer but less than the top dollar.
Had we not been able to have this almost unlimited supply we would have almost gone out of business. Instead we were able to keep the price to a minimum and only had a few weeks of angst when we were down to the last hundred kg and had to pay almost 70% more to replenish it.
Strewth what a whinger.
Shut up Neil and go to bed. :sleep1:
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[QUOTE=ubeaut;1877863 This was housed in Mildura in his refrigerated units and in Geelong in our refrigerated container for almost 2.5 years to keep it as fresh as the day it was made. [/QUOTE]
Instead of refrigeration do you think that storage in nitrogen filled sealed containers would help maintain shellac freshness?