Item:Vessel of splotchy shellac

vessel of splotchy shellac
Look:	You see nothing unusual.
Weight:	10 stones
Metal:	No
Uses:	40
Appraised Cost:	25,000 Kronars20,000 Lirums <br />18,040 Dokoras <br />25 LTBpoints <br />25 Tickets <br />25 Scrips <br />
Properties:	This is an item.
Dimensions:	1 length x 1 width x 1 height
Sources:	Source is House of Bardic Blues

This item is for weatherproofing instruments.

STUDY:
The splotchy shellac can be applied to some musical instruments to provide limited protection from modest amounts of water and weather such as rain or snow. No amount of shellac could protect an instrument from water that's deep enough, however! Ideally, the shellac buys you time if you're caught in a storm unexpectedly, but it will be worn down over time and require further applications. Depending on the quality of your weatherproofing agent and the thickness it is applied to on your instrument, appropriate levels of water may be fully repelled or at the very least slow the rate of accumulation and thus damage done to your instrument over time. The quality affects the maximum that can be applied, how much is productively added with each application, the speed of the application process, and ultimately how often it will need to be reapplied to maintain suitable protections.

This particular shellac appears very poorly prepared and has 40 uses remaining. [There are many types of weather protection for instruments -- varnishes, lacquers, etc. The names are merely cosmetic and don't match to particular instrument types or materials.]