laquer sanding sealer question

[Bay Area Dave]

Guys,

Is Deft lacquer sanding sealer adequate to protect wood used for shop
equipment stands. I mean as far as protecting the wood against
moisture. I want to use something that dries faster than the poly that
took over 12 hours recently. I need to spray enamel paint on part of
this project, but mostly it will be the sanding sealer unless consensus
says I still need poly or something else for a top coat.

TIA

DAVE

[Doug Cook]

Better to use just some lacquer for the top coat. Sanding Sealer is lacquer
with stearates added to ease cutting back/leveling before adding the
topcoats. The experts say those additives make it a little too soft to us
as a top coat. But if your only concern is moisture and not durability, and
it's what you already have on hand, it would probably do all right.

HTH

"Bay Area Dave" <da...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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[FOW]

Three coats of blonde 1- 1/2 lbs. cut shellac. Blast it one with a cheap
brush, think and quick ! I'm serious. Those throw away off whit brushes,
just pull the loose hairs out of them first. You could get some Zinnser
Bullseye Shellac in the can and cut it with ? 2-3 lb. cut from the can YOU
figure it out DAVE. I'm still P.O.ed I typed all that stuff on trying to get
you to buy a Powermatic 66, and you went and bought a Delta! I called you a
trader instead of a traitor.You took it in stride. Thank GOD ,I spell lousy
and you caught it before I did , or my spell checker.
Dave I recently started using Shellac, Went to College of the Redwoods,
years ago. Short program, Summer session. Just starting to use some of the
things I learned there, No more girlfriend, time for real, fun like working
wood now!
I got tired of reading, and decided to actually push wood thru, THE JOINTER/
THE PLANER, Then THE SAW.

Shellac my man, dries FAST and works great for jigs. P.S. :
I'm just North of you in Sonoma County. Shellac likes a wee cool temps.
Dries a little slower, like us not as fast as we used to be, painters/
woodworkers. I'm only 41 but I feel more , patient now,.
As James Krenov would say : Worry the wood. Here' what I mean.
http://www.wood-workers.com/users/charlieb/KrenovPondering.html

And check out Charlie's page , extremely well written page on woodwork.
Lurk like I do and You'll find the good woodworkers here.
Thanx Mr. Self!

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[Bay Area Dave]

FOW,

I know, I know...the Powermatic almost made the cut, but I kept looking
at the Unisaw sitting next to it and it just didn't seem necessary for
me to pony up an extra $600 bucks. plus the fence thing... PLEASE
FORGIVE ME! <G>

If I want to use what I have, that would be the sealer, but I'm 5 blocks
from HD. I wonder if they sell shellac flakes. For a shop project, is
premixed shellac ok and will it provide as good a moisture barrier as
the deft sanding sealer?

dave1

[Bay Area Dave]

Doug,

Ah, I hadn't realized just what the diff. is between regular lacquer and
the Deft sealer. I guess for what I'm doing today, it would be ok.
Thanks for this info!

dave

[Cody Hart]

Hi Dave,

I built some coat racks summer before last,for our mud room(coat,
hat,and boot room that Momma won't allow in the house) and used a
premixed Amber Shellac I got from Woodcraft. The mud room isn't heated
and the racks so far look brand new...No cracks in the shellac, or
anything...Temps in there are only a few degrees above the low temps
outside...Plus the Amber Shellac brought out the beauty in the Ambrosia
Maple boards I used...

[Bay Area Dave]

Thanks for posting, Cody. I have GOT to remember to pick up shellac
flakes somewhere around here. Don't know who carries them. Would
Sherwin Williams have that?

dave