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Studio Products :: Solvents :: Gum Turpentine, TRIPLE DISTILLED

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Gum Turpentine, TRIPLE DISTILLED #16242

The double-distilled was great but this is vastly superior. Almost no smell and dissolves cleanly. Fresh triple-distilled Gum Turpentine. Freshness is important because turpentine will take up oxygen upon contacting the air. We keep it chemically active by decanting it into smaller, airtight containers for later dispensing. This is not Rectified turpentine, which is cooked at high temperatures with water. Although that produces a clear turpentine without the traditional precipitate on the bottom of the container, it also causes the turpentine to hold water. Water is why many resin varnishes grow cloudy. Today, much turpentine is made in Third World countries using light wood, that is grinding up stumps, branches and pine needles and drawing the essence out with steam. The result is that smelly stuff that also contains water. Just imagine what sort of maple syrup you would get if you boiled up roots, branches and leaves. Over a hundred different species of coniferous trees are used to produce different grades of turpentine. The famed Portuguese turpentine is almost nonexistent and Portugal now imports from Brazil. The last great stands of turpentine pines and traditionally-made gum turpentine are in the Carolinas and Georgia. There, the trees are tapped for the sap. The sap can be heated to much lower temperatures than ground-up stumps and, as a result, the distilled turpentine is chemically different. Ours has been distilled three times to remove most of the resinous material (a scant amount remains). These trees are grown in iron-rich soil (the famed Georgia red clay) and some of that iron oxide is taken up in the sap. The very best quality sap is called virgin box - from trees that have been tapped for less than three years. That is what we insist on buying.
We make painting mediums and, as such, demand the most active, purest possible turpentine produced. It has taken years to locate this maker but we feel that it is worth the effort. Decant the turpentine into your palette cup for use during the day and seal the bottle to prevent it from getting stale. The bottle is packed in a special foam box. We must charge for the packaging. This cannot be shipped outside of the continental United States.
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Weight	2.00 lbs
Product Safety Notes	Use with adequate ventilation. Avoid prolonged exposure to skin.
Retail price:	$23.50 (€ 20.45)
Member's price:	$17.86 (€ 15.54)

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