Happy New Year first of all.....
Just thought I'd post this to share something I tried with Cetol and Cetol Gloss....
I built a table top over Christmas.....the base wood is pine, topped with a teak veneer. The border is oak. The border is stained with miniwax red oak to pull colours from the salon. after building all that, I routed out the border to add the inlay banding.
On the teak veneer, is three coats of cetol marine light, topped by five coats of cetol marine gloss. Nothing extraordinary here.
But because it was a table for my cockpit, i wanted as high gloss a finish as possible, and though helmsman spar varnish might have been better, I figured that the Cetol would hold up longer.
The difference here is the application. The five coats of marine gloss, were thinned to 50% using special thinner 216, and then hand rubbed. I only sanded once between coats, after the fourth coat with 600 grit. The final coat was thinned to about 30% and also hand applied.
I posted it as azknobel didn't think it possible, and that it would affect the gloss, but I think it proves that it can be done for certain bright work
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cheers
G
