Sunday, June 13, 2010
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This column begins a series on individual types of finishes. Since lacquer is the preferred finish throughout the furniture industry, that’s where we’ll start. Let’s begin by understanding a little about the nature of the beast.
Lacquer is unlike varnish, polyurethane or paint in one important respect: when it dries, it’s still the same material you had in the can, without the solvents that made it liquid. All the others change chemically as they dry...ordinary lacquer doesn’t. This is important to know because the solvents in the second coat of a lacquer finish will dissolve the first coat...the third coat will affect the previous two, and so on. The more coats you apply, the easier it is to wind up with a mess, and the longer the drying time between coats. This is true whether you’re using a brush-on or spray application.
From: http://ping.fm/lg3Nu
This column begins a series on individual types of finishes. Since lacquer is the preferred finish throughout the furniture industry, that’s where we’ll start. Let’s begin by understanding a little about the nature of the beast.
Lacquer is unlike varnish, polyurethane or paint in one important respect: when it dries, it’s still the same material you had in the can, without the solvents that made it liquid. All the others change chemically as they dry...ordinary lacquer doesn’t. This is important to know because the solvents in the second coat of a lacquer finish will dissolve the first coat...the third coat will affect the previous two, and so on. The more coats you apply, the easier it is to wind up with a mess, and the longer the drying time between coats. This is true whether you’re using a brush-on or spray application.
From: http://ping.fm/lg3Nu