Casper wrote:
A friend is trying to stain his own kitchen cabinets. (His family
bailed out on him.) He is using a Minwax polyurethane stain which is
going on ok on the flat sections but bulking up in corners and around
edges and such. He says it is oil based and he is using an oil based
poly brush.

Normally I stain and then poly, if I poly at all. I need suggestions
on the best way to remedy his problem, preferably using the stain he
already has purchased. Would it be better to rag it on? Or thin it?
Ay suggestions welcome.

He is applying too much.

What he has is varnish with color in it: a "toner". Ideally, varnish should
be flowed on in a fairly thick coat but one has the exercise some restraint
in the amount. It also needs to be applied evenly. If it isn't even, brush
it out.

When I varnish I apply a brush load, tip out the sides of the applied area
and start the next brush load ahead of where I stopped with the previous; it
is then dragged back to #1 then ahead to new area, then edges tipped. Et
cetera

For corners, he would do well to do them the same way one cuts in an edge
when painting; i.e., hold the brush at an angle and sort of push a small
amount into the edge with the brush tip and drag it along; when the brush
tip is depleted, roll the brush a bit more toward 90 degrees. Easy to do,
hard to explain.

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dadiOH
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