Show resin made blade by accident the discovery of a way artificial resins might be made for use in paints and varnishes came about quite by accident in 1901 an english dyestuff maker produced a tough resinous mass in his laboratory experiments made over a number of years perfected the product as we know it today and opened the way to an inexhaustible source of supply obtainable at will natural resins are still used of course being largely collected by natives of tropical swamplands where it is found embedded in the mud |