So Sam gook luck on your experiments let me know what you come up with. I don’t know the outcome how they held up I never got to see any of them after they sold. This gave a glass like look to them but then again if you shake, stir, est you creat air bubbles that puts you back into the sanding part. most put some form of POLYURETHANE on them I used a high gloss. Now I have painted some paintings on chairs with liguid acrylics for a art chair -ity that I donated to them there was alot of us that did. yet give it that look of glass without fogging. I would guess that you would have to keep it thin so it doesn’t crack. but something like that would be some what like the process. May be you could use some thin glazing for colour, then thined down high gloss varnish? I don’t know if you could glaze varnish. it keep all the orange peal down, keep the paint thin, and gave that glass like look. that was why all the sanding and buffing wes needed. but gave the effect of 1/2 to 1 inch thick. I may be some where maybe 1/64 of an inch. the effect is that the clear coats look thick, but its not.
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