Harvey Pascoe
08-15-2012, 2:34 PM
Sorry about the non specifity of the title but I do not know how to describe this problem. By the way, I'm just coming back after a heart attack side-lined me for 8 months. There were many complications such as kidney failure and 7 operations during that period. However, I'm doing well and up to full speed woodworking.
My problem involves water based "lacquer" and additional coats over preceeding coats where the previous coat repells the latest coat. Either it repells or created numerous fish eyes. This happens only occasionally and I'm at a loss to figure out why. I've heard about stearated sandpaper causing this, but since I always use the same wet sandpaper, if it is stearated, this should happen all the time, instead of just occasionally. Is there a name for this phenomenon of the surface repelling the wet finish? And if so, what causes it.
My problem involves water based "lacquer" and additional coats over preceeding coats where the previous coat repells the latest coat. Either it repells or created numerous fish eyes. This happens only occasionally and I'm at a loss to figure out why. I've heard about stearated sandpaper causing this, but since I always use the same wet sandpaper, if it is stearated, this should happen all the time, instead of just occasionally. Is there a name for this phenomenon of the surface repelling the wet finish? And if so, what causes it.