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Title: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: umiman on January 18, 2010, 07:19:40 pm: For some unknown reason, I painted my housemate's wooden knife block on a whim last night with some... acrylic? watercolour? I dunno paint. Now I'm a bit worried that it will get destroyed when it comes into contact with basically anything. I've never actually painted anything before and have no clue how to protect this. Any ideas? Preferably cheap ones?

This is the painting by the way:
(http://xs.to/image-6C97_4B54FA11.jpg)
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: Hippoman on January 18, 2010, 07:25:28 pm: ugh... name.... must... remember.
plainer. no.
Finisher? Maybe.
No...PRIMER!
thats it. Primer.
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: Willfor on January 18, 2010, 07:37:39 pm: Primer? ... No. :( Just no.

Varnish. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish)
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: umiman on January 18, 2010, 07:40:07 pm: Wouldn't varnish make the whole thing brown?
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: Willfor on January 18, 2010, 07:42:12 pm: Quote from: umiman on January 18, 2010, 07:40:07 pm
Wouldn't varnish make the whole thing brown?

Quote from: wikipedia
Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film primarily used in wood finishing but also for other materials. Varnish is traditionally a combination of a drying oil, a resin, and a thinner or solvent. Varnish finishes are usually glossy but may be designed to produce satin or semi-gloss sheens by the addition of "flatting" agents. Varnish has little or no color, is transparent, and has no added pigment, as opposed to paints or wood stains, which contain pigment and generally range from opaque to translucent.
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: Luke_Prowler on January 18, 2010, 10:40:46 pm: That. is. awesome.
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: PTTG?? on January 18, 2010, 11:11:15 pm: Varnish is probably right. But I want to shout random wood finishing products too!

Epoxy!

Moisturizer!
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: umiman on January 18, 2010, 11:30:57 pm: Huh, I wonder what that brown stuff I used back in shop class all those years ago was...
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: Hawkfrost on January 19, 2010, 12:12:52 am: Quote from: umiman on January 18, 2010, 11:30:57 pm
Huh, I wonder what that brown stuff I used back in shop class all those years ago was...

Stain most likely.
That shit smells, my nunchuks still reek of it years later.
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: Cthulhu on January 19, 2010, 07:37:00 pm: Quote from: Hippoman on January 18, 2010, 07:25:28 pm
ugh... name.... must... remember.
plainer. no.
Finisher? Maybe.
No...PRIMER!
thats it. Primer.

Primer is what you put on before you paint it.
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: azazel on January 19, 2010, 08:45:13 pm: Varnish is what you'll want. It can also go by "lacquer" (the difference is that varnish is painted on, lacquer is sprayed on). Ask in the store for a waterproof, polyurethane product; I don't know where you are and I really have no idea about product names outside of my own little workshop. Besides, I use acrylic varnish, and it's hardly what you're after.

edit: ooh, also ask how much it'll affect colour, obviously.
Title: Re: How to make a painted wooden thing waterproof?
Post by: Hippoman on January 19, 2010, 08:48:25 pm: Quote from: Cthulhu on January 19, 2010, 07:37:00 pm
Quote from: Hippoman on January 18, 2010, 07:25:28 pm
ugh... name.... must... remember.
plainer. no.
Finisher? Maybe.
No...PRIMER!
thats it. Primer.

Primer is what you put on before you paint it.
Yep, I just went with the first name that sounded right. I always thought Primer was it, but Varnish is it.