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Using clear lacquer for pigmented aqualente

5/16/15       
alex Member

I have a small children’s furniture business. I have about 7 colors that I use for my products and I recently switched from latex to Aqualente pigmented lacquer. It is a wonderful product and I have had a lot of success using it. With two of the colors I noticed it did not spray or cover like the others (orange and gray). Then I looked closer at the product and the distributor used Aqualente Clear Lacquer as the base then then tented it from there not white base. And it all made sense. Is that normal within the industry? I have painted in the autobody world in the past and we used that set up for candy coating but never for a base. Why would they do that?

5/16/15       #2: Using clear lacquer for pigmented a ...
Bill in Oregon

The white base probably can't be tinted to the colors you specified so they used the clear.

5/16/15       #3: Using clear lacquer for pigmented a ...
sean

Many of the deeper colors have to be done in a clear base. Lacquers have a tint load (only can add so much pigment) associated with them. In short, it would take so much pigment to tint a white base to a deep color that the integrity of the lacquer would be ruined. No way around this. Normal tint load for a solvent borne lacquer is ten ounces pigment and agualente is 6 ounces. These limits can be pushed a bit but push to much and the product will not dry properly and sand horrible.

5/17/15       #4: Using clear lacquer for pigmented a ...
alex Member

Sean,
Thanks for the response. And that makes sense. I am just having a problem with coverage and blocking ability of the paint. I am painting a basic orange color. After two coats, I still have some bleed though and it does not cover the edges very well. I am going to end up putting down three coats just to get good color coverage. Do you have any suggestions on how to overcome these issues? Why would they use clear for a medium orange color? That seems like a white base could have worked easily for it. This is for children’s furniture so I need a nice product but I need faster production.
Thank you, alex

5/17/15       #5: Using clear lacquer for pigmented a ...
sean

Alex, are you priming the wood first? You should lay down a coat of primer before spraying your tinted agualente. This blocks out the wood and makes coverage of tinted lacquers much easier. Get agualente stain blocking white primer. Have your supplier tint the primer to a neutral gray color. Lay down one coat, sand then topcoat. This will solve your coverage problem. You should always prime the surface on any any opaque finish, every time.

5/17/15       #6: Using clear lacquer for pigmented a ...
sean

Oh, as far as choosing a clear or white base to mix a color simply comes down to what the computer says to use. All manufactures, SW, ML CAMPBELL, VA SPAR, CHEM CRAFT, etc. all use a universal software program that tells the supplier which base to use for a certain color. To make it easier for you, here is a tip. On most fan decks there are 5 colors on a strip. The top 2 colors are guaranteed white base colors. The 3rd is typically a white base, but can be a clear maybe 10 percent of the time. The 4th color is a clear base around 70 percent and the last color is always a clear base. These are fudgeable statistics of course, but it's a good base line to use when choosing colors off a deck so you know what you may be getting into before hand.

5/17/15       #7: Using clear lacquer for pigmented a ...
alex Member

I use aqualente primer sealer and block out that coat to a smooth surface, it will leave some light brown spots, which normally will cover nicely with the paint but not with it made from clear. Secondly, instead of using a tintable clear base coat, they mixed the paint using regular clear lacquer. I guess in the future I will have to change the colors to assure a white base to make it faster.

5/18/15       #8: Using clear lacquer for pigmented a ...
Charles Member

If you are getting spots through the primer, you may have to apply a second coat of primer.


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