Thank you for showing us the difference in poly finishes. I will use the brush on for my dining table. I like the tip of buying the spray on at garage sales. How smart!
Tom, thank you so much for all of your videos. About a year ago we had a small extension put on my home and they left a space between the old part of the house and the new part of the house and we had to put a piece of wood threshold in between, your video really helped me go through the process of the best way to polyurethane the threshold. It looks pretty good. Thank you!
Have you tried not sanding between wipe on poly coats, but instead just knocking down the grain/surface with a brown paper (bag or back of a fine grit sandpaper) between coats? This is why I like wipe on poly there is no need to sand off brush strokes between coats.
I can't remember having seen wipe-on polyurethane for sale here in UK/Ireland - perhaps I've just missed it - but I've been making my own version for a long time by diluting the brush-on version with white spirit (mineral spirit?) I dilute it about half and half and use it for sanding sealer and other fast finish requirements. Whether or not it's cost effective I just don't know. I just throw that in for everyone's consideration.
My only issue with the brush on is you have to sand it in between coats. I already did all that sanding before hand and i dont wamt to have to do anymore. My project now has hard to reach sanding areas. Its miserable
Now try grabbing a graco airless sprayer (i like the gx18) and drop that brush minwax fast drying in there. Then spray down coats as thick as you brush. Thin your top coat down, take pictures!
