Wooden pistol grip finish

[Bad Ass Wallace]

Trying a new finish, after smoothing to a good finish, coat with 'super glue' then spray with acetone. The glue will dry to a very gloss finish in just 10 to 20 seconds.

[pworley1]

Do you have pictures?

[georgerkahn]

Trying a new finish, after smoothing to a good finish, coat with 'super glue' then spray with acetone. The glue will dry to a very gloss finish in just 10 to 20 seconds.

Your post brings up, to me, several queries. To wit, available to me cyanoacrylate adhesive both comes in rather small containers -- ~20 grams as largest -- not at a very low cost (~$8.50 USD) either. Advertised is a "20-second" time before drying. My curiosity is piqued both in how one might fully, evenly coat an entire wooden pistol grip before it commences to dry. I can envision, perhaps, the small pieces as on, say, a 1911 semi-auto's grip inserts... But -- for an actual wrap-around grip?

Acetone -- (CH3)2CO -- is a great solvent for plastics, most 2-part epoxies (before they harden).. and cyanoacrylates. I can envision your acetone spray perhaps retarding the superglue drying, but cannot envision any change other than perhaps -- from its solvent properties perhaps smoothing the applied superglue out.

I'd really love to see some photos?

geo

[MrWolf]

Does the two part "super glue" products with an actuator allow for the glue to not dry for a longer period of time? I have not tried them but if the glue requires the actuator then it might work from that perspective.

[porthos]

sorry, but i have a hard time evisioning (sp?) that finish without a lot of high and low streaks.

[stubshaft]

Need Pics!