shellac

The last shellac record was indeed made from shellac.

Again, the big problem for abuse victims is getting the shellac beat out of them for disobeying their abuser.

Breakage fees having been introduced to cover the loss to the breaking in transit of early brittle shellac phonograph records.

Using a microgroove stylus designed for vinyl will not do your shellac records any favours.

And shellac is a natural (or at least non-manmade) material; does this make it more environmentally friendly than vinyl or PET?

It's actually great stuff and works wonders for tooth sensitivity above and beyond fluoride shellac.

Then again, I am not a fan of Shellac or his other music, so I am probably missing something.

BTW, note that india-ink doesn't necessarily use shellac, although some modern brands do.

The coating needs to be light else you get a shellac/lacquer finish.

In a house you can also paint over it with shellac primer.

Moreover, to improve stylus (steel needle) tracking an abrasive was added to the shellac which abraded the stylus to best fit the recorded groove.

Yes, the varnish was different, being part red shellac, presumably in order to give the wood a redder colour than tree resin alone would have.

Confused by this until I realized you meant "Shellac (band)" and not "Shellac - resin secreted by the female lac bug" which was used to press records in the 1920s.

I don't know all the nitty-gritty, but the last Shellac record was "pressed" using an injection molding process that utilized recyclable PET (I can't find the interview with Albini[RIP] where this was discussed but if I find it I'll edit it into the comment).

[0] "The focus of the lawsuit was the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project, which officially started in 2017 and aimed to digitize the shellac discs that were the dominant medium for recorded music from the 1890s until the 1940s and 1950s, when vinyl arrived.

With bands like Arab On Radar, Shellac, or The Oxes, it wouldn't be detectable.