Water based poly problem
Hello,
I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. I volumteered to refinish my parent's kitchen table as payback for my Dad helping me deliver finished projects to customers. I started out by sanding the entire table top down to bare wood. I finish sanded it up to 220. I applied a coat of shellac as a seal coat. That dried over night. Next day I applied a water-based glaze tinted with Transtint dyes. That dried over night. I was only doing the top, so I was trying to get to the color of the rest of the table and chairs. I felt that I needed to warm up the tone a bit, so I tinted the water-based poly with Transtint dyes, and sprayed a coat. It sprayed great despite being a brushing product. As it dried I began to notice some issues. Slowly it began to crackle. It looks kind of cool, but this is not what I was going for. Any clue why this happened? Other contributing factors may have been: Temperature in the shop (it was very cool in the early day, but I had the heat on for hours before I started). Heating with kerosene. Could that have contaminated the surface? Anyone experienced this? Thanks, Brian |
Water based poly problem
What brand poly were you using?
"Brian Mahaney" wrote in message . .. Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. |
Water based poly problem
Many of the modern polys are not compatable with shellac. Some manufacturers
will even recommend you use only their matching sealer. "Brian Mahaney" wrote in message . .. Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. I volumteered to refinish my parent's kitchen table as payback for my Dad helping me deliver finished projects to customers. I started out by sanding the entire table top down to bare wood. I finish sanded it up to 220. I applied a coat of shellac as a seal coat. That dried over night. Next day I applied a water-based glaze tinted with Transtint dyes. That dried over night. I was only doing the top, so I was trying to get to the color of the rest of the table and chairs. I felt that I needed to warm up the tone a bit, so I tinted the water-based poly with Transtint dyes, and sprayed a coat. It sprayed great despite being a brushing product. As it dried I began to notice some issues. Slowly it began to crackle. It looks kind of cool, but this is not what I was going for. Any clue why this happened? Other contributing factors may have been: Temperature in the shop (it was very cool in the early day, but I had the heat on for hours before I started). Heating with kerosene. Could that have contaminated the surface? Anyone experienced this? Thanks, Brian |
Water based poly problem
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does not generate any spam. JG http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/phpBB2/portal.php Brian Mahaney wrote: Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. I volumteered to refinish my parent's kitchen table as payback for my Dad helping me deliver finished projects to customers. I started out by sanding the entire table top down to bare wood. I finish sanded it up to 220. I applied a coat of shellac as a seal coat. That dried over night. Next day I applied a water-based glaze tinted with Transtint dyes. That dried over night. I was only doing the top, so I was trying to get to the color of the rest of the table and chairs. I felt that I needed to warm up the tone a bit, so I tinted the water-based poly with Transtint dyes, and sprayed a coat. It sprayed great despite being a brushing product. As it dried I began to notice some issues. Slowly it began to crackle. It looks kind of cool, but this is not what I was going for. Any clue why this happened? Other contributing factors may have been: Temperature in the shop (it was very cool in the early day, but I had the heat on for hours before I started). Heating with kerosene. Could that have contaminated the surface? Anyone experienced this? Thanks, Brian |
Water based poly problem
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:50:32 GMT, Rumpty wrote:
What brand poly were you using? "Brian Mahaney" wrote in message . .. Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. Ace Brand. From the hardware store, for experimentation. Brian |
Water based poly problem
Brian Mahaney wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:50:32 GMT, Rumpty wrote: What brand poly were you using? "Brian Mahaney" wrote in message t... Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. Ace Brand. From the hardware store, for experimentation. Brian Brian, I doubt that it's the reason for your problem but you do know NOT to use waxy shellac as an undercoat, right? Always used de-waxed shellac under other finishes. I use a compatible sealer when I spray waterborne polys and I've never had any issues with cracking, bubbling, peeling, blushing, or any other surface defect so I'm not too good at diagnosing problems as I've not had to solve any. (Now with regards to regular poly...that's another story) Dave Dave |
Water based poly problem
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:00:56 -0800, David wrote:
Brian Mahaney wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:50:32 GMT, Rumpty wrote: What brand poly were you using? "Brian Mahaney" wrote in message et... Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. Ace Brand. From the hardware store, for experimentation. Brian Brian, I doubt that it's the reason for your problem but you do know NOT to use waxy shellac as an undercoat, right? Always used de-waxed shellac under other finishes. I use a compatible sealer when I spray waterborne polys and I've never had any issues with cracking, bubbling, peeling, blushing, or any other surface defect so I'm not too good at diagnosing problems as I've not had to solve any. (Now with regards to regular poly...that's another story) Dave Dave The shellac was dewaxed, but it did occur to me that I ran a tack cloth over the whole thing just before I sprayed. It was one of those ones you get at the hardware store. I forgot about that. Could that have left stearates on the surface? Would that have caused the problem. I may never know, but I'll change a variable next time and see what happens. I'm going to sand the finish off soon and try again. Brian |
Water based poly problem
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:22:24 GMT, Brian Mahaney
wrote: Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. I volumteered to refinish my parent's kitchen table as payback for my Dad helping me deliver finished projects to customers. I started out by sanding the entire table top down to bare wood. I finish sanded it up to 220. I applied a coat of shellac as a seal coat. That dried over night. Next day I applied a water-based glaze tinted with Transtint dyes. That dried over night. I was only doing the top, so I was trying to get to the color of the rest of the table and chairs. I felt that I needed to warm up the tone a bit, so I tinted the water-based poly with Transtint dyes, and sprayed a coat. It sprayed great despite being a brushing product. As it dried I began to notice some issues. Slowly it began to crackle. It looks kind of cool, but this is not what I was going for. Any clue why this happened? Other contributing factors may have been: Temperature in the shop (it was very cool in the early day, but I had the heat on for hours before I started). Heating with kerosene. Could that have contaminated the surface? Anyone experienced this? I'd suspect the kerosene. I once finished a piece in water-based poly, and another in oil based poly. I set them to dry within a few feet of each other, and the water based piece finish got really messed up. I'm pretty sure it reacted to the volatile solvents in the air from the oil-based poly. On other occasions with the conditions in the room the same, the water-based poly OR the oil-based poly finish turned out fine when they were drying alone. Kerosene heaters leave a fine oil film, so this may have reacted with the water-based poly like the oil-based poly solvents did. I'm now careful to keep water and oil based poly apart, but wonder if I just happened to use a formulation of water-based poly that has that reaction. The stuff I used was Minwax Polycrylic on maple. YMMV. ....John |
Water based poly problem
Brian Mahaney wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:00:56 -0800, David wrote: Brian Mahaney wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:50:32 GMT, Rumpty wrote: What brand poly were you using? "Brian Mahaney" wrote in message news:18bo5x3ndz8x7$.17ox3qn6nfub8$.dlg@40tude. net... Hello, I've never tried a water-based poly until today, and I have run into a problem. Admittedly, I am experimenting a bit. The problem is a crackled finish. Here are the details of what I did. Ace Brand. From the hardware store, for experimentation. Brian Brian, I doubt that it's the reason for your problem but you do know NOT to use waxy shellac as an undercoat, right? Always used de-waxed shellac under other finishes. I use a compatible sealer when I spray waterborne polys and I've never had any issues with cracking, bubbling, peeling, blushing, or any other surface defect so I'm not too good at diagnosing problems as I've not had to solve any. (Now with regards to regular poly...that's another story) Dave Dave The shellac was dewaxed, but it did occur to me that I ran a tack cloth over the whole thing just before I sprayed. It was one of those ones you get at the hardware store. I forgot about that. Could that have left stearates on the surface? Would that have caused the problem. I may never know, but I'll change a variable next time and see what happens. I'm going to sand the finish off soon and try again. Brian It could leave OIL on the surface. That shouldn't cause the cracking, as far as I know. Jeff Jewitt and Bob Flexner both have excellent books on finishing. I use sterated papers between coats of WB poly and never have a problem. Now the same paper, when used with Minwhacks poly causes me no end of problem with cratering. I'm not a fan of using tack cloths and have abandoned their use altogether. I use a combination of a type of cloth who's type and composition I can't describe, other to say it's sort of "waffle" looking, and compressed air. I like blowing out pores before and between sanded coats of finish. You can wipe a surface all day long and not remove debris from the pores. Dave |
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