paint an all that jazz
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:01 pm
more paint than jazz I admit... HELLO !! all from a soon to be new member, with a bunch of questions...
there is a product here in sunny Portugal called 'Tapa Poros', literal translation 'hole filler'.. It is like a thick cellulose varnish used for the first coat on raw wood to fill grain and small imperfections... it dries immediately, well, in a couple of minutes literally, and sands down really easily leaving a totally silky smooth coat, Obviously therefore, not 'knot stopper' , meth based, but a cellulose thinners solvent based product... I use it on picture frame mouldings in the raw state prior to traditional French polishing, shellac in pure meth, basically, and get the perfect finish... you can build up several coats in a day if necessary, as you would with traditional lac polishishing The orientals used literally HUNDREDS of coats on papier maché and wood lacquered stuff.. rubbing back to almost nothing before the next coat, to get that glass like finish...
question...never seen anything like it UK... is it a porkandcheese curiosity?
question... it's cellulose based, so like car paint in the old days? will there be reactions with modern urethane varnishhes put on top...? Car finishes have to be as durable as anything the elements chuck at them?, don't they?
question..and why do I have to pay 3 or 4 times the price for Marine varnish than standard exterior DIY stuff and it still looks like s**t after a couple of seasons..
question Now this is interesting but as yet unverified..
It is getting very hard to buy 'traditional' oil based paint.. the classic household white spirit based 'gloss' paint... I hear it's eco reasons, and fair enough... in my Portuguese equivalent of B n Q you can only buy acrylic based, water thinnable gloss and eggshell paint... I have used it at home, and it's great , clean etc, but not used it on the boat yet...only interior, though they say it's exterior too..
anyone come across this yet,....Is it going to be as durable as the old gear.....?
Will we never be able to buy trad paints and varnishes soon?
I've been out of the UK for long enough to start losing the plot a bit in matters like this all answers greatfully blahblahblah
regards jonboy
there is a product here in sunny Portugal called 'Tapa Poros', literal translation 'hole filler'.. It is like a thick cellulose varnish used for the first coat on raw wood to fill grain and small imperfections... it dries immediately, well, in a couple of minutes literally, and sands down really easily leaving a totally silky smooth coat, Obviously therefore, not 'knot stopper' , meth based, but a cellulose thinners solvent based product... I use it on picture frame mouldings in the raw state prior to traditional French polishing, shellac in pure meth, basically, and get the perfect finish... you can build up several coats in a day if necessary, as you would with traditional lac polishishing The orientals used literally HUNDREDS of coats on papier maché and wood lacquered stuff.. rubbing back to almost nothing before the next coat, to get that glass like finish...
question...never seen anything like it UK... is it a porkandcheese curiosity?
question... it's cellulose based, so like car paint in the old days? will there be reactions with modern urethane varnishhes put on top...? Car finishes have to be as durable as anything the elements chuck at them?, don't they?
question..and why do I have to pay 3 or 4 times the price for Marine varnish than standard exterior DIY stuff and it still looks like s**t after a couple of seasons..
question Now this is interesting but as yet unverified..
It is getting very hard to buy 'traditional' oil based paint.. the classic household white spirit based 'gloss' paint... I hear it's eco reasons, and fair enough... in my Portuguese equivalent of B n Q you can only buy acrylic based, water thinnable gloss and eggshell paint... I have used it at home, and it's great , clean etc, but not used it on the boat yet...only interior, though they say it's exterior too..
anyone come across this yet,....Is it going to be as durable as the old gear.....?
Will we never be able to buy trad paints and varnishes soon?
I've been out of the UK for long enough to start losing the plot a bit in matters like this all answers greatfully blahblahblah
regards jonboy