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Clean & Prepare Trim Surface

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Painting Trim Using Lacquer Toner. FISHEYE RESOLVED!

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What happens here

Before applying any tinted lacquer, it is critically important to ensure the wood trim surface is immaculately clean. The video recommends using cleaning agents such as denatured alcohol or a deglosser. A crucial warning is issued against sanding older wood trim, especially if there's a possibility of hidden contaminants like old oils or waxes. Sanding can generate heat, which can cause these contaminants to liquefy and spread deeper into the wood, creating a pervasive problem like 'fisheye' during the subsequent lacquer application. Proper cleaning removes surface dirt and oils without forcing contaminants into the wood grain.

Goal: Ensure a clean, contaminant-free surface for proper lacquer adhesion and finish.

Tools and materials

  • Clean Cloths
  • Deglosser
  • Denatured Alcohol

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that mix up all our pigmented lacquers and asked them to Mi Mix us up a toner that would give me kind of an espresso color and so they took a sample of this and they started adding toner in it and sprained it on there until they achieved the look that I wanted and then we um said yeah so here we are doing this and how's the process go John it's pretty simple you you make sure your your trim is clean use uh you can use the glosser or you can use denatured alcohol something like that probably not a good idea especially on an older home to sand it because if there are any contaminants you're just going to move that around heat it up and push it into the lacquer more and kind of spread your problem around beyond that it's pretty simple

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