Pianolac vs Enduro or ?

[dale r fox]

Richard,
	quite often I do just fill with finish coats. I use Enduro Poly,  it
sands easily and fills very quickly.  I have used their spreadable
filler, but find it hard to get back to flat without cutting into
previously stained, raw wood. I suppose  could put on a couple of coats
of finish, then fill ,  then sand. You can use steel wool only after the
final coats have been applied with this stuff. If you recoat and don't
sand _ALL_ the steel particles off, you will get little orange specks
from the rust.
	Guess I'll have to try their wetting agent. Sounds like a time saver.

Dale Fox


On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:59:42 -0600 Richard Anderson
<tknostf@foxvalley.net> writes:
> One finisher I know advocates rubbing with steel wool rather than 
> sanding
> before finishing. He believes that sanding leaves a sharp top edge 
> on the
> pore which leads to the problem described below. Using steel wool 
> breakes
> the edge of the pore allowing the finish to flow into the pore. Of 
> course,
> he's not using water base so he can do that.
> 
> Is anyone just filling with finish out there?
> 
> -- 
> Richard Anderson
> Anderson Piano Service
> mailto:tknostf@foxvalley.net
> http://users.FoxValley.net/~tknostf/
> 
> From: Jon Page <jonpage@mediaone.net>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 14:35:31 -0500
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Pianolac vs Enduro or ?
> 
> 
> 
> PianoLac, The Sealer has components which fill the pores.
> Arthur has the proper terminology for their function.
> 
> One of them is a super wetting agent which loosens the tension 
> within the
> material.
> You have noticed that as you spray an open pore finish, the more 
> coats you
> put on,
> the bigger the pores get. This is caused by the tension within the 
> material
> (sort of
> like a meniscus). The wetting agent allows the material to flow 
> deeper into
> the pores
> drawing it in; where before it developed surface tension at the edge 
> of the
> pore.
> Jokingly I said the molecules have a tendency to lock arms and 
> prevent each
> other
> from falling into the precipice but the wetting agent has them 
> acting like
> lemmings.
> 
> 

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