Durability of Mirotone Pre-Catalysed Lacquers

[Jeremy D]

Hi Guys,

I was just wondering if anyone has any info about the long term durability of this product? I used it on my first guitar with z-poxy as the pore filler. I have been playing it for a year about an hour a day. I have visible wear on the lower bout where my arm rests and also on the back of the neck between the first and 5th fret.

I am about to put the finish on my second using the same stuff but with boatcote as the pore filler. I wonder if it could have been anything to do with my application? The wear looks sort of like someone has hit it with fine sandpaper. Sort of cloudy. I don't have any problems with sweat etc (not on any other guitars anyway).

Cheers.

[DarwinStrings]

G'day Jeremy, can you buff it out? I have not seen anything like that on a mirotone finish. Cloudiness sounds like water in the finish but I sweat all over stuff in the tropics and have not seen it, could it be anything to do with the pore filler. I have never used that filler so not sure about how it can behave.

Jim

[Jeremy D]

Hi Jim,

It could very well be to do with the pore filler. It was really strange, when I did the final buff all the pores sank a little bit. Previous to this the surface was really flat. I wonder if I didn't wait long enough for the epoxy to really harden. Anyway using boatcote this time as the factory is not far from me and it seems to be a lot nicer.

BTW its not really cloudy in the finish. More like it has been hit with 800 git paper and only in wear spots. I am not worried about it just curious, it has seen a fair bit of play time .

Cheers.

[Jeremy D]

I have studied the guitar and done some research here and on the olf. I believe this is all caused by amine blush from the z-poxy. In the bin with the z-poxy. Boatcote claims their product does not produce amine blush so hopfully one less thing to worry about.

Thanks for looking.

[Bob Connor]

I reckon you are looking at amine blush as well.

I've also noticed that z-poxy shrinks back under the buffer.

In fact if you check after a few months it will also sink back further into the pores.

Regards