Furniture Fiasco's and Fixes!
As a painter who paints alot of furniture, it is inevitable that I should run up against chemical reactions and unexpected Oooops's. This weekends painting featured such an event, Read on for the terrible saga... ( don't worry there is a happy ending) >wink<
On a bright sunny day (a happy thing already because we live in Oregon) Let's build the drama with a better begining...
One terribly dark and dreary day (see....more drama) Patty painter is faced with a dealine for finishing some commissioned furniture, Her assignment is to paint an heirloom desk that has been in the family for two generations, However she is to leave most of the stain showing, and mearly trim the piece out with added decor. The painting goes mainly as planned, and by early evening she is ready to varnish...Now it is almost dark out and there is real rain in the air and it is about 55 degrees out... Patty uses a wipe on Varnish by Min wax for most of her furniture because it is so easy to use, Wiping it on the top she notices that a half an hour later the exposed stain area is not cured yet... Yikes.... It feels even a little sticky... Most of the rest of the piece is only the old stain with added detailing, risking the wipe on Varnish on the rest of the piece could be disasterous. Having been here before she gets out her Craft Varnish that generally works but takes longer to apply..as she starts applying the varnish ..Shock...Horror... The paint and pinstriping and spattering begins to smear all over the place.... This is Dreadful..
As the bad language subsides , the paint is patched , Patty painter pulls out one of her favorite tricks... When smearing ink or paint happens Mist the piece with Krylon 1311, then apply Varnish... ( I don't know whats in that stuff but it seems to work) Now the new problem? The desk is on top of the game table inside the house and no big men are home to move it around... So on the dark and dreary evening , Pouring rain she opens all of the windows and doors, sprays the Krylon inside her house and goes and hides in the laundry room until the toxic chemicals subside. Finishing the job with several coats of Craft Varnish, Patty is able to deliver the piece to her customer....
Ahh I love happy endings.
The moral of the story is...when you leave any of the old varnish exposed you need to expect problems. Misting with Krylon 1311 is one of the fixes I have discovered , but ussually the craft Varnish does work I have never run up againgst the paint smearing and wiping off before....
Always do a test before you commit to the varnish you have selected! (a lesson to myself) :o)
Happy Painting!
Patty
On a bright sunny day (a happy thing already because we live in Oregon) Let's build the drama with a better begining...
One terribly dark and dreary day (see....more drama) Patty painter is faced with a dealine for finishing some commissioned furniture, Her assignment is to paint an heirloom desk that has been in the family for two generations, However she is to leave most of the stain showing, and mearly trim the piece out with added decor. The painting goes mainly as planned, and by early evening she is ready to varnish...Now it is almost dark out and there is real rain in the air and it is about 55 degrees out... Patty uses a wipe on Varnish by Min wax for most of her furniture because it is so easy to use, Wiping it on the top she notices that a half an hour later the exposed stain area is not cured yet... Yikes.... It feels even a little sticky... Most of the rest of the piece is only the old stain with added detailing, risking the wipe on Varnish on the rest of the piece could be disasterous. Having been here before she gets out her Craft Varnish that generally works but takes longer to apply..as she starts applying the varnish ..Shock...Horror... The paint and pinstriping and spattering begins to smear all over the place.... This is Dreadful..
As the bad language subsides , the paint is patched , Patty painter pulls out one of her favorite tricks... When smearing ink or paint happens Mist the piece with Krylon 1311, then apply Varnish... ( I don't know whats in that stuff but it seems to work) Now the new problem? The desk is on top of the game table inside the house and no big men are home to move it around... So on the dark and dreary evening , Pouring rain she opens all of the windows and doors, sprays the Krylon inside her house and goes and hides in the laundry room until the toxic chemicals subside. Finishing the job with several coats of Craft Varnish, Patty is able to deliver the piece to her customer....
Ahh I love happy endings.
The moral of the story is...when you leave any of the old varnish exposed you need to expect problems. Misting with Krylon 1311 is one of the fixes I have discovered , but ussually the craft Varnish does work I have never run up againgst the paint smearing and wiping off before....
Always do a test before you commit to the varnish you have selected! (a lesson to myself) :o)
Happy Painting!
Patty
posted by Patricia Rawlinson at
5:45 AM
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