The proposition: you have an oak dining set finished pickled. Pores open. You decide that the retro 80’s black lacquer is a good look, and you love your table, so want to turn pickled oak into black lacquer. The finish is lacquer now, and you do not want to strip it down. So you’re in the market for a good pore filler that you can put on top of lacquer, sand, and recoat with lacquer, and you need it in some quantity. Preferably something that dries fairly quick. Even better if you can spray it and it self levels. I am way open for suggestions. Rich?
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Hmmm. . .
I've always found that if you want to fill the pores you have to do so before the finish. Don't know if any filler is going to do what you ask. Maybe.
If you apply enough finish, eventually you'll fill the pores, sanding down the new finish on the surface, each time, leaving new finish in the pores. That's a lot of work, though. Probably just as much work as sanding off the existing finish then getting filler into the pores.
I hate refinishing.
Rich
Well that worked, sort of. I asked for Rich and I got Rich. But now we're both just kind of slowly smacking our heads on a wall. I told the customer that this was probably not worth the time it would take to get a satisfactory end result and for what it would cost, buy a new table. "But we just love how this one looks" . . . Okay, but I ran this by Sherwin and even asked the local auto body supplier if they had any whiz bang ideas, nada. I agree - I haven't heard of anything. I know you can get lacquer based glazing compound at an auto body place, and it would fill pores, but you'd need a thousand of those little tubes and a month to sit there and hand apply it to every stinking pore. And no, I'm not going to sand all day either. Build it, sand it, watch the pores shrink out anyway, do it again . . . which wouldn't be terribly involved on the top but the legs, aprons, the curves on the chairs. I think I'm busy that day. Have to like, take the neighbors cat for a walk or something. Maybe someone has run into the cats meow on this and I'll get ideas, but if not, random smart remarks from the peanut gallery would at least let me laugh a little.
Hey. You asked! (he said, smirking)
Rich
Mohawk sells a product called a industrial sealer they claim will fill the pores. I've never tried so I can tell you how is works just that it's available. Might be the ticket.
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