While browsing through the stalls at Brimfield Market I saw a demo of a refinishing product called Huntington’s Original Finish Revitalizer. The demo results were impressive but I am a skeptic and will always be one.
The first application is a cleaner with color or stain added. The second application is an acrylic polymer
Does anyone have experience with this product?
Thanks in advance
Chuck
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Never used it. But, I'm sure it could be replicated easily enough.
The cleaner is probably either a Naptha with a dilute oil-based dye added or some sort of denatured alcohol with a dilute alcohol-based dye added. More likely the former than the later.
The second step sounds like a run of the mill wipe on finish.
How soon after the cleaner step did they add the acrylic poly?
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud" - Sophocles.
It is probably like Howards' and many other brands. It will work on SOME things--doubtless what you saw. It doesn't work on everything. That said, I'm a pretty big fan of Howard's.
Chuck ,
I have not heard of that brand , but Mohawk finishing products for years has had a product called re- amalgamator . It actually sort of melted a crazed finish and allowed it to flow once again . So if this is similar it may work on certain finishes .
good luck dusty
I am not familier with that specific "refinisher" but I bet it is virtually identical to Minwax, Formby's and Howard's refinishers. These are called ATM (Acetone, Toluene, Methanol) strippers without the wax added that slows up their evaporation. Because they have no wax, they need to be applied with steel wool and you end up mostly rubbing the finish off. They will partially soften the finish and it can seem to melt old finishes leaving it looking nicer.
There is nothing wrong with using these types of products but it's sort of a half way stripping of the old finish. In most cases, you need to then top coat the surface with a new finish of some sort. Makes no difference what finish you use as long as it it compatable with the existing finish.
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