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In Topic: Torsten style copy
Today, 08:05 AM
Rayshot, on 08 February 2012 - 07:12 AM, said:
the CA can be awesome for the right style catty but its extra work.
I don't know about it being extra work, Ray. If you apply with a finger, you've eliminated the whole brush-cleaning tedium. And if you sand between coats... well I do that with varnish too. If you ask me, a three-coat CA finish is worth a five-coat Varnish finish (could be wrong there). I conclude that this makes a CA glue finish easier.
(Though by no means always appropriate. A CA glue finish on a red oak natural, for example, would be a sin of the highest caliber.)
As an added benefit of my experiments with CA glue, I have now taken the finger application method over to Helmsman's Spar Varnish and it's working like a charm -- no brushes, no cleanup except my fingertip. I'm lovin' it. You can get really thin coats this way, too, which always look better than the thicker coats (and runs) you often get with a brush. No hairs either.
One other thing: I really really hate the CA fumes.
