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Mike, I'll post a follow up, if and when I can find out how to do this. My car is a 1991 Mercedes 300d. I like to keep the car in nice shape for my own enjoyment and well being (gotta have good brakes!), but ...it's only worth a certain amount when I go to sell it (no plans of doing that for...

But does that trick work with interior wood trim? The trim is out of the car so I can work with it better. The best thing that I did to make it look a lot better than my 1st few attempts, was to add about 5% of mineral spirits into a small cup of the varnish. It has helped the varnish relax a...

I was doing dry sanding, but will go with what works I was dry sanding, but will switch to anything that works. Maybe it needs more time to fully dry, but sanding it....is like sanding plastic; it turns it anti-clear, as in "opaque". I've attached a photo. You can see how this dried wavy...

Polished with what? When you say he sanded, then polished, what did he polish with? I need to sand out any tiny bugs, wavy lines from the product drying, and dust specs. When I sand it, like sanding plastic, it becomes opaque then. I just want that super smooth, clear glass look to it.

West Marine is where I got the varnish. I did one more coat just to see what would happen if I thinned it out a bit, and I'm glad I didn't thin it anymore. Like I figured would happen, having in thinner is great for any LEVEL surface. But for the curves or turns on a wood surface, thinning it...

Yeah, the parts are out of the car. Still, when it dries, it takes 24 hours. In the meantime you get dust on the parts, little bugs landing on it, etc. I was going to put a bit of mineral spirits in it to make it flow better, but was just thinking, it might be a bad idea since the pieces are not...

I recently re-did the interior wood on my 1991 Mercedes; the wood around the shifter, console, etc. I used a clear marine spar varnish (spar meaning for exterior so it can expand/contract during weather changes), and it came out looking terrific, like glass, except wavy, because the varnish is...