On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:23:06 -0500, the infamous Steve Turner scrawled the following:
Larry Jaques wrote:
>> Amen, bruddahs! Waterlox rocks.
>
>You know, in the drumming newsgroup that -MIKE- and I follow, there is a
>long standing joke about where to find a low-cost source of "Moongel", a
>gooey substance that makes an excellent head-dampening material, but
>carries such ridiculously high price that nobody wants to pay for it.
>I've wanted to try Waterlox for years, but every time I go to procure
>some I find myself refusing to pay the outrageous price they ask for the >stuff So... >
>Does anybody know of a low-cost source for Waterlox?
My best source, an old Wreck follower, Russ Ramirez of
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, now defunct. He bootlegged it into California for me. It was illegal there at the time, prolly still is.Holy S*it, Maynard! Prices have skyrocketed since I bought my gallon of Original/Satin Waterlox. It's now $30 a quart, but a quart will finish a helluva lot of wood, believe me. I think my gallon was $41. Just keep the air off it's surface in the can or it'll skin and gel on your in a heartbeat.
Woodcraft and Highland Hardware $27, Killian Hardware $26, but regular varnish is now $15 a pint, so it's not so different, eh? Any decent oil finish is skyrocketing because of the bloody ecoterrorists who scream "VOCs Kill!"