clear coating it . . .

Recently, Lonnie brought home some lacquer paints for us to use. The spray paint in general was alright, . . . .well, okay – I wasn’t impressed. For me, spray paint is spray paint. BUT I’m not the spray painting kinda girl. I spray too close in one spot for too long and most every single time get drips!

BUT – the clear lacquer was fantastic! I loved it AND I didn’t get drips? I don’t know why, I just know of all the furniture {and curtain pole} I’ve used this stuff on there have been no drips!! That calls for a celebration as far as I’m concerned!

This stuff dries quick! And not just too the touch – I’m talking about so dry, you can pick it up and move it back into the house, place it where you want to and go ahead and set lamps {or whatever} on it kinda dry!

***Tip – if you do use this brand, we found that if we sanded {lightly} with some incredibly fine grit sandpaper after it was dry, the finish is as slick as glass . . . perfect!

I also had someone say something about their clear coat yellowing . . . let me explain your polys. Obviously, that was an oil-based polyurethane. It yellows unless it states it doesn’t on the can. Water-based poly doesn’t yellow {with my experience.} You have to use an oil-based poly if you use an oil-based paint. Have to. If you use a latex paint you can use a water-based poly {because latex is water-based} or an oil-based poly.

Basically you can put oil-based on top of water-based, but you CANNOT put water-based on top of oil-based.

When I paint furniture, I mostly use latex paint {water-based} because clean up is so much easier. And most times, I age it a bit by rubbing stain {oil-based} on top of the latex paint {water-based.} Because of that stain, I have to use an oil-based poly.

FYI – spray paint is oil-based. Unless of course it states it’s not on the can, such as the H2O types that are out now.

FYI – the “rub-on” poly people have been talking about lately is oil-based.

I say all of this to say, you can use the above Lacquer paint on oil or water-based paints. It is awesome {and it doesn’t yellow!}

I hope all this just made sense?!?!

And although the oil-based poly yellows, it is much better than the orange the old shellac would turn furniture. haha!

As with all my posts – this is my opinion with my experiences. I’m sure I just made someone mad because I normally do when I express my opinion. Frankly, I don’t care. And I mean that in the nicest way. You have a great day – you deserve it!