Understanding Pigmented Lacquers: High-Build and Pre-Catalyzed

And I think you mentioned that was a Sherwood product. It is a um it's a Sher Williams product. Sherwood product and we don't have the can here. It's out in our van um cuz we're not using the primer in here cuz these are already um coated with lacquer. Now we'll talk about are the pigmented lacquers um that we you'll use for colored lacquers. And then we'll talk about just clear lacquer. And here's a product. This is the product we use if we're going to use a pigmented lacquer. So color this is kind of an olive green color. And it's a Sherwood product once again from Sherwin Williams. And it's a high build pre-c catalyzed lacquer. And if none of you know what pre-c catalyze means, it's different than a regular lacquer. Pre- catalyzed, they're adding a catalyst into it before they send us out of the store. So now it's catalyzed. Makes it harder and um it does have a pot life. So they'll usually write a date. This is we just pick this up. There's a date on there and there's an expiration date. So John, what does the catalyzation do to the lacquer? The catalyzation does a couple of things. Uh, one, it does make the product or the top coat more chemical resistant. And so, if you go on to like the the chemical coatings website for Sherman Williams, it'll tell you the tests they've done with certain stains. And so, uh, you know, if you use a a high quality lacquer like like this high build pre-cat lacquer, um, it's going to be much more resistant to, um, stains that you would encounter in a kitchen, chemical stains. Uh, it's going to stand up to those things. In fact, uh, one of the times that we, uh, one of the very first cabinet sets we did, we went, we did the cabinets, we installed them, we had a couple of doors we had to do, so we took them back to the shop, um, over the weekend to work on, came back, and the lady told us that she had been cooking in her brand new lacquer kitchen and spilled a whole bunch of pasta sauce all over the front of her cabinets and was absolutely amazed that it cleaned right off. There was no staining from the I think it's like the lycopines in the tomato or whatever will tend to stain your uh the your woodwork or your mill work or anything your Tupperware all red and there was no staining at all. Yeah. Yeah. And here's this is a question some people might ask too and it says Sherwood High Build and I've used a lot of lacquers in my career. I've used MRA lacquers and a whole array of lacquers from um Sher Williams and I've used…