Thread: Lacquer pullover recipe needed

Lacquer pullover?

Originally Posted by tea lady

Lacquer pullover?

A jumper sprayed with lacquer

Originally Posted by Scott

A jumper sprayed with lacquer

Well that's what it sounds like. But I am pretty sure that's not what it means.

Originally Posted by Scott

A jumper sprayed with lacquer

Leave Roo's out of it!

It's a compound that partially softens an existing finish to remove scratches, haze and other minor blemishes; but not so harsh that it strips it. Applied on a soft, clean, lint free cloth and stroked in one direction only; if towards you then you are "pulling" the finish.

A little bit like French Polishing but without rubbing.

There is a method of pulling lacquer and it is actually done with cotton wool wrapped in a leather chamois and using lacquer pulling liquid and a similar technique to French Polishing with shellac only using the chamois rubber.

The lacquer pulling liquid is poured onto the cotton wool and the chamois is wrapped around the cotton wool to form your rubber then you begin using a circular motion and or figure eight and although time consuming as in shellac,it produces a brilliant finish, but a good quality lacquer must be used.

I learnt this in Tech College in the early 70s when doing a French Polishing apprenticeship and never used it again but I never forgot it the old French Polishers were slave drivers and you were not finished until every little bit of grain was filled.I am not sure if there is such an item as lacquer pulling liquid still on sale these days.

Regards
Foxhound

I think that you will find that it is 50% thinners and 50% lacquer and then add to that volume 10% metho so if you have say 100mils in your mix add 10mils of metho.

To rub it on, use a natural chamois as the outside of the rubber.

Router

Originally Posted by router

I think that you will find that it is 50% thinners and 50% lacquer and then add to that volume 10% metho so if you have say 100mils in your mix add 10mils of metho.

To rub it on, use a natural chamois as the outside of the rubber.

Router

Yep, it was something like that but it finished with 'add the meths till it starts to go cloudy' - which in my case was about 60%.
anyway, it still begs the question - why are we adding the meths - what does it do?