getting a high gloss finish

[rljohn56]

I'm not very good at the high gloss finish that i see many people do on here and was looking for advice.....especially when you are dealing with smaller pieces! example the vid i enclosed.  how in the world would you sand and finish something like this to a high gloss look?

VID_20170616_160004170.mp4

[Phantom Scroller]

Try wipe on poly there's a few youtube vids on it. Roly

[Scrappile]

I don't have any idea except spray, gloss paint.  Thanks for showing.  I want to try some of those..... I think they are cool.

[WayneMahler]

Roly has some pretty good advice, might be hard with the shapes of compound cuts though, although a fine artist brush may work. Poly is a finish you build up and it takes a few coats of gloss to get a good glossy finish. You may want to look into spray poly also and apply light coats and rub with steel wool between when dry. Once again hard to do on compound cuts. Another choice would  be spray lacquer as it bonds to itself when re-applied. Best of luck. BTW nice cutting on that piece.

[spirithorse]

On a small piece like that you can also use high gloss paints rather than trying touse a finishing coat. If you aren't doing enough projects to make it cost effective to buy a couple pints of paint with polyurethane, then I would just spray LIGHTLY
with spray polyurethane with two or more coats.

God Bless! Spirithorse

 

[SCROLLSAW703]

32 minutes ago, spirithorse said:

effective

personally, on something like that, I wouldn't waste my time with poly. Were it me, after it's been painted, dried & cured, I'd use deft lacquer on it. Or Watco, which ever you can get. Watco won't change the color like deft might, but the gloss look is outstanding. Get the rattle can so you can just spray it that way. A little less hassle. I spray shellac out of the rattle can, unless it's a bigger project. Then I spray shellac & lacquer both with my hvlp spray gun with air. I get a better coat on, & it looks much better in the end.

 

[amazingkevin]

13 hours ago, rljohn56 said:

I'm not very good at the high gloss finish that i see many people do on here and was looking for advice.....especially when you are dealing with smaller pieces! example the vid i enclosed.  how in the world would you sand and finish something like this to a high gloss look?

VID_20170616_160004170.mp4

my neighbor gave me white primer rattle cans today and i had lots of projects to spray.The  results was so good im not even going to paint them .runs and blobs of primer just melted together .hid all the imperfections like magic.And glossy too!

[rljohn56]

Thanks again gang for the many tips and advice.

[hawkeye10]

Spray shellac. 

[zimmerstutzen]

Some wood turners get a really high gloss finish with CA glue.  I still can't understand how they do it without their applicators suddenly sticking and wrapping around the work.  I've not tried it.  Saw it in a Captain Eddy video.   It took me a bit to try his shine juice (equal parts nonwaxed shellac, BLO and denatured alcohol) .  It shines up and dries on the work with the heat of friction between the spinning work and the folded paper towel applicator.  The paper towel applicator looks like it has been coated with plastic where it contacted the work.    I understand the mixture is somewhat similar to what is used for the high luster French polish..  

Edited July 31, 2017 by zimmerstutzen