Hydrocote Resisthane Plus (Gloss)
Don't know if anyone's tried this stuff out; we picked up a can of it after reading a review recently, which reckoned it was good for brushing as well as spraying, and gave the mid-hard kind of finish we wanted. Trouble is, now that we have it, the stuff seems nightmarish to apply - we've tried a number of brushes, but it always seems to go wrong, and ends up crackling (so it looks like shattered glass almost).
Does anyone know what we're doing wrong with this, or how to prevent this from happening to our finish?
Cheers.
Spray or brushing, they both work fine
I use Resisthane all the time and I love it. I've spayed it and brushed it and always get steller results. You just have to use it right.
1. The satin finish is more reliable than the gloss. I've stopped using the gloss. It's too persnickity.
2. If you spray it you have to remember that it's an acrylic, not a polyurethane. I think a lot of people just assume it poly and then have all sorts of trouble. Dilutions for acrylic are different then polyurethane. Also spray nice and close, 6" from the piece.
3. If you're brushing, use a high quality synthetic brush, dilute the finish a lot and put on lots of coats. When I really want to go nuts, I'll start with a medium dilution and work my way up to a high dilution (almost like water in viscosity. When it's that dilute, I'll than lay the finish on really thick on a horizontal service. That means I'm turning the piece a lot and doing only one surface at a time. After about a dozen or more coats, I buff it with 0000 steel wool, then apply Renaissance Wax.
Time consuming, yep. Crazy, definitely. But you'll get a finish that you can fall into and Hydrocote doesn't bother my chemically sensitive wife.