We are building and finishing some kitchen cabinets. We were given the following instructions
Step 1 Spray on a Clear Lacquer Sanding Sealer diluted with lacquer thinner
Step 2 Spray on 1 coat of lacquer finish – again diluted with lacquer thinner
Step 3 Mix toner – using oil based color pigment (as artists use) with lacquer thinner and add lacquer Portions of 1 part lacquer and 3 parts lacquer thinner -spray several thin layers
Step 4 spray with lacquer
Problem – is with step 3 – after spraying four layers on with 10 minutes in between coats – some pigment comes off on our fingers – is this normal – do we “set” it with the clear lacquer now – but what if we would like to darken the color
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Sounds like the proportion of thinner to lacquer is too high to give an adequate binder to the pigment..
Are you working on the actual cabinets at this point, or are you working on test panels?
I'm afraid that just sealing in the inadequately bound pigment could give you a "weak" layer in the finish that could give problems down the road. But, you don't really have a very thick layer of toner, with all that thinner.
If you want to go darker, you can use additional toner layers--with a stronger binder, after you have sealed in the pigment with lacquer. All the toner doesn't need to be in one band. You do have to consider, whether achieving a dark shade with pigmented toner is going to obscure the grain of the wood.
What wood are you useing and what is the desired look.
It seem that your toner is no good mix.
I prefer to use solvent base pigment instead of oil pigment.
For your case, you can contunue your coloring, but be carefull. Do your coloring gradualy you cannot spray to much toner.
Dont spray your toner to thck, let dry, if you want to you can brush your toner to even your pigmen. Then apply coat on it.
See the color if you need darker color, you can do your color after your lacquer.
Do several time until get your color.
every time you spray your color, you need to apply lacquer on it to bind the pigment
Thanks
What is the ratio of pigment to the other ingredients?
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