Thanks Ben!

I don’t blame you one bit! A lot of trees should probably not have been cut down as carelessly as they have been.

So his solution, which he found out through experimentation, is simply to overload the initial clear coat with too much fumed silica.

This will mean tiny porous gaps, and the silica will diffract light in pretty much exactly the same way that degraded lacquer will.

It’s perfect.

3. Fumed silica is a mostly clear powder that is used as a matting agent and appears white on its own because of the way it diffracts light, but appears clear when fully saturated by a coating.

2. There is a critical point in a pigment binder ratio where once you have more pigment, the result will be porous and have tiny gaps.

The main difference and obvious first concern is that oil paints use a drying oil, and mayonnaise uses other food oils that undergo rancidification.

But now I’m digging in to try and better understand exactly the degradation process that could occur and it’s risk to furniture.