Jamestown Distributors said that the Halcyon will bond fine to the cured EM8000, just to sand it will 220. Since I have the 8000 anyway, and the wood soaks it up so well, I'm going to use that for the base coat, so the Halcyon couple of gallons will allow me to put more coats on. I'm pretty sure the first gallon, at least, would have disappeared.