Poly, urethane, acrylic are all suitable finishes for certain applications
when applied correctly. Lacquer is an interesting one that many endorse, but
the name itself is used for many different and sometimes unrelated compounds.
Except for shellac, many of them are plastic of one type or another. And even
shellac can be applied so that the result looks like a cheap plastic coating.
But, it does give us something rather harmless to argue about.

In the meantime, I'm a'goin to go and stain some cherry.
GerryG

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:28:02 -0800, David wrote:

Real? What's unreal about poly? I'm not a fan of applying slow drying
solvent based poly, but to suggest that poly's aren't real is quite a
stretch of the imagination.

Dave

Larry Jaques wrote:

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:39:20 GMT, Michael White


wrote:


Hi all,

I'm trying to put a polyurethane coat onto a bookcase I'm building. Since
it's a prototype, it's made out of cheap, soft pine. I've got it stained,
and I'm trying to put on the final coat of polyurethane. But I keep
getting small bumps about 1 mm in diameter in the polyurethane coat. If I
sand them down and put on another coat, they come back (although I'm not
sure if they're in the same spot).


Get a magnifying glass. I'm sure you'll find that they're bubbles
introduced by either the wrong brush or the wrong use of a good
brush. Why not try a REAL finish instead of poly next time?


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