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Monster Rain wrote:What's a good brand of polyurethane for this sort of thing? Is this something they'd have at Lowes or Home Depot?

Home Depot carries MinWax.

A word of caution, however: depending on what state you live in, you may get different products. California has outlawed oil-based Polyurethane and the "oil-modified" water-based stuff is nowhere near as good - it's like comparing maple syrup with skimmed milk.

The water based stuff needs many more coats than the oil-based, although admittedly, it doesn't smell or want to explode like the oil-based.

jordanis wrote:when did this happen? cuz i have some oil-based polyurathane...

It's fairly recent -- I ran out, went to get more, found it's been withdrawn from sale, at least in SoCal. Something to do with VOC levels.

Seriously, I'd try that on a piece of paper first...