Flecto Varathane

Considering the confusion on whether the Rustoleum (or Rust Oleum -
added for Google searches) Varathane is the same as the Flecto, I
bought a few gallons of the Flecto brand 'just in case'. If anyone
wants to buy any, whether to test it out (remember: once it's gone
we'll all have to be using the Rustoleum version), because they can't
find it locally, or they want it to finish off one last project with
the same kind before switching, let me know and I can send it out in
2oz craft bottles.

I started using it about a month ago - I like it a LOT better than
Future. Seems to give the beads a more natural, 'polished' gloss
rather than a plastic shell like Future does.

my contacts at Rust-Oleum SWORE the formula is unchanged. However, given my
curious nature, I'm doing my own tests and looking for independent
corroberation....and calling them again at Rust-Oleum next week. Sometimes
asking things over a period of time really helps collect information.
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"Fenrir Enterprises" wrote in message
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Considering the confusion on whether the Rustoleum (or Rust Oleum -
added for Google searches) Varathane is the same as the Flecto, I
bought a few gallons of the Flecto brand 'just in case'. If anyone
wants to buy any, whether to test it out (remember: once it's gone
we'll all have to be using the Rustoleum version), because they can't
find it locally, or they want it to finish off one last project with
the same kind before switching, let me know and I can send it out in
2oz craft bottles.

I started using it about a month ago - I like it a LOT better than
Future. Seems to give the beads a more natural, 'polished' gloss
rather than a plastic shell like Future does.

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:22:43 -0600, "Sarajane Helm"
wrote:

my contacts at Rust-Oleum SWORE the formula is unchanged. However, given my
curious nature, I'm doing my own tests and looking for independent
corroberation....and calling them again at Rust-Oleum next week. Sometimes
asking things over a period of time really helps collect information.

My experience with various other company takeovers of smaller products
is that they just can't leave well enough alone, which turns into an
utter disaster for anyone who uses their product regularly (Case in
point: Sanford buying up the Berol pencil company, formerly Eagle, and
discontinuing Prismacolor shades for the regular and Verithin lines,
causing distress among many artists who had to redo/discard entire
drawings). On the other hand, as a waterbased varnish, even if the
formula changes, other varnishes such as Polycrylic, Krylon Waterbase,
Future, Ceramacote PermEnamel, etc, seem to work with polymer clay,
just not quite as well.

I find it better not to take risks with products one intends to sell,
though.

| On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:59:04 GMT, (Fenrir Enterprises) wrote:

I started using it about a month ago - I like it a LOT better than
Future. Seems to give the beads a more natural, 'polished' gloss
rather than a plastic shell like Future does.

I find that if you are really, really, stingy applying the Future, it looks
much better. I moisten the very edge of a foam brush, squeeze most of it
right back out again before applying, then spread it even more using the
dry part of the brush. Then again, I'm doing larger stuff, not beads.

Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist
http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/
Balticon Art Program Coordinator http://www.balticon.org