On 2/8/2013 4:30 AM, dadiOH wrote:
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... 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.
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He is applying too much.

_ANY_ of this particular product is 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.
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This particular product is one I cannot understand how it ever got
introduced and how it survives on the market--only the inertia of the
Minwax name keeps it afloat I think.

It is an _extremely_ difficult to flow product and doesn't suit well to
flowing out w/ even a good quality brush--it gets tacky almost immediately.

Don't ever try it thinking it's a saver of time over the two-step
process if you want anything at all controllable in how it turns out
other than, perhaps, a large flat table top.

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