> But Deft still recommends using lacquer thinners for clean-up,

All of the acrylic enamel car paints, and their relatives, use laq 
thinner for cleanup.
If you use laquer thinner to actually thin it though, it will dry as 
flat as the street.  No gloss at all. I have made this mistake, doh!

   Use enamel reducer if you want it shiny. This comes fast, med and 
slow btw.
  Plus there are other additives in the industry like hardener, retarder 
and super gloss etc.

  I have a partial gallon of traditional nitrocellulose lacquer I dole 
out miserly. (I'll open the can for mere seconds, dip out a 1/2 or 1/4 
pint, drip in a bit of thinner, and then slap the lid back down! 
Thoroughly tapping all around twice with a rubber mallet, and then 
flipping upside down for a few seconds to make sure the underside of the 
lid is coated.)

   I've also got plenty of Deft, since its so easy to get.
   Most definitely -not- the same stuff. Not at all.

  I haven't tried Minwax yet, but I still suspect its another acrylic 
enamel relative.
  Auto acrylic enamel clear coat, the professional stuff, you can get 
under $30 a gallon most places.
  Actual colored paint costs 3 or even 6 times more than that now, which 
is why all cars are clear coated these days.
   Its down to a whisp of paint, and coats of clear on top, in the 
autobody world.

  Traditional lacquer from the instrument supply, costs around $100 a 
gallon.

   This is why I expect most things sold as lacquer, especially at any 
big box warehouse store,  will be clear coat,  in drag.
     yours again Scott

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