I am using a Tung/BLO/Turps mix and then spraying clear Deft over that with pretty nice results on my Mesquite. I was wondering about other brands of clear lacquer that ya’ll are using that might give a nicer finish than Deft. I am paying about $25/gal for Deft.
Michael Burton
Thunderbird Hardwoods
KD Mesquite
Llano, TX
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If you want a WB lacquer, you can't beat (IMHO) Oxford Ultima Spray Lacquer. Used to be Target PSL, and available from Homestead. 100% burn-in and it's water clear. Since you already have your color from the oil mixture you won't miss the amber of the nitro. The Trans-Tint amber available makes it look yellow instead of amber.
BTW, how are things up in LLano. Used to hunt up there years ago when venison wasn't $5000 a pound...
Llano is doing good. Population has grown quite a bit. I have only been there about 6 years since moving from West Texas (Monahans). Sure has been a nice change for us after 36 years of dirt and tumbleweeds.
I hear ya about the deer hunting. It has gotten so expensive any more it isn't hardly worth going to hunt. $10 an acre is the going lease rate around there. Too rich for my tastes. I would sure love to get hold of ####fresh bunch of venison though. In my opinion there isn't anything better except maybe Axis Deer. They are delicious. Heh heh ;-)Michael BurtonThunderbird HardwoodsKD MesquiteLlano, TX
You'll ditch the venison once you wrap your lips around some smoked feral hog. Meat is pearl white with little or no fat. Got a whole bunch of them around here in Bastrop county. Guy I know traps them in 55 gallon drum traps, feeds them up for a couple of weeks then slaughters them.
BTW, the WB lacquers are much harder than the nitro. More resistant to water and alcohol also. Be good for rockers and furniture that takes abuse. It's not as toxic as CAB/CAT lacquers.
When I was a kid, I went with my Grandpa and some of his buddies and trapped some around Jourdanton with a couple of big cage traps. The best part of the deal was getting the boars stuffed into a doubled up gunney sack so we could castrate them before we fed them out. I wish like hell I had had a video camera to catch that circus!Michael BurtonThunderbird HardwoodsKD MesquiteLlano, TX
Wouldn't want to try to stuff any of these into a sack. The guy I was telling you about caught a big one (250 lbs) and popped it with a .357. Opened the cage to drag it out, and it took his thumb off before he could give it the coup-de-gras. Found the thumb in the boar's mouth, and had it sewed back on. Lost some feeling in it. He uses it to test the doneness when he smokes a whole small hog.
The sows are easy, we just shoot them with a 9mm in the cage and drag them out. It is the boars that will get the adrenaline moving. :-) You could shoot them too but the meat doesn't taste as good until a few months after castrating them.
Some crazy Bohemians showed us how to catch these hogs and sack 'em. We use a couple of poles with ropes looped on the ends, so they can be tightened up by pulling on the other end of the rope, to get the boars by the snout and keep the tusks under control. Once we have them snubbed down good we grab them by the back feet and drag them out of the cage and get them in the sacks head first and tie them in with their back feet sticking out. We then throw them up in the back of the pickup and haul them to the pens at the ranch house and cut them there, and let them loose in the pen to heal up and feed them out. Those hogs are some pi**ed off mean SOBs. It is easy to get hurt if you not paying attention to what your doing for sure. Those tusks can do a lot of damage. Now you see why I wish I had a video camera to have got that on tape. Lots of folks won't believe we trap them like that.Michael BurtonThunderbird HardwoodsKD MesquiteLlano, TX
Mikey,
Just curious, as I have never sprayed Deft, thought it was meant as a brushing lacquer.
Do you thin and don't you have problems with the lacquer drying too slow?
I normally get good results with with any water white lacquer from the paint stores, be it Sherwin Williams, or Dun & Edwards etc.
What do you mean by "nicer?" Applied well, Deft looks and feels good.
There are a lot of good finish manufacturers including Akzo Nobel, Becker-Acroma, Chemcraft, Gemini Coatings, Guardsman, ICA, ILVA, ML Campbell, Mohawk, Sherwin Williams, Seagrave Coatings, and Valspar.
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I love the finish I get with Deft. I was just wondering if there was something better I wasn't aware of. I build quite a few tables and rockers.
ThanksMichael BurtonThunderbird HardwoodsKD MesquiteLlano, TX
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