Varnish for wet collodion....

rai

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Greetings! I try to make a varnish for collodion plates based on gum arabic . Someone of you have any formula? Thank you
 

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The only issue I can think of is that the gum will absorb moisture allowing eventually some penetration of damaging substances like fungus or chemicals.