This is the first in a series of blogs about testing two new wood coatings, EnviroMax and EnviroVar. This series will give you a glimpse of what happens when you actually pick up the gun and spray.

I have been hearing for years about people putting wiping stain into their clear finish to shade it or color it and around certain products that’s a big no, no!

Once the expiration date for a wood coating has been reach, the performance of that coating will begin to fall off. Can more catalyst be added to reactivate it?

Those of you using a wiping stain for a glaze should never underestimate the power of prayer.

West Wood Products announced it has added 20,000 square feet of space to its Houston, TX, plant, which now totals 45,000 square feet. The company’s main component manufacturing and flatline plant in Rancho Dominguez, CA, is 92,000 square feet.

Recently, I decided to “put some color” in clear lacquer. The idea is to not have to stain the wood and to put the color and the finish on at the same time - “kill two birds with one stone.”

This is the time of year when I occasionally hear about blushing, which happens on those warm Fall days when the temperature is still up but it rains or is damp.

Primers are designed to do a number of things including being an interface between the bare wood and the color coat.

Wood coatings are less opaque than we think they are that's why a primer should always be used first, and the primer coat must be pristine because it is the white of the primer that helps creates the final color.

To avoid opacity issues, apply a primer before color coating; it is a significant part of the wood finishing process.