Buffalo-hide

[Kopper1013]

Getting ready to spray my first bow with gloss buffalo hide. Planning on using a perval sprayer and thinning 30%. I'm thinking 5 light coats...

What is the key to not having orange peel?

It said to wait 4-6 hours between coats, what do you do with the rest of the buffalo hide between coats do it doesn't set?

Say you go to bed and it's 12-14hrs before you start coating again, should you lightly sand before you start again?

Anything I should really know about it before I start?

Thanks

[Mad Max]

If you go to light of a coat and it is low humidity it will dry too fast
Practice on a dark piece of wood upright and spray,
you want enough on there each coat,just before it runs.

It was a hard one for me to learn !
My bow room is 35* humidity.
It dry's to quick in there.
I open the barn door and spray, wait 1 or 2 Minutes and take it to the bow room.

Good luck     my 2 cents

Practice Practice Practice

[nashoba]

I have kept unused finish in a sealed jar in the fridge for up to two weeks.

[chackworth3]

It took me a lot of trial and error to figure out but what I do is spray 3-4 light coats about 5 minutes apart and then wait a couple of hours and repeat. I do about 4-5 rounds like this. Like was stated above, test your spray pattern on another piece of wood before you start.  Thunderbird has good instructions on their website and from what I understand thunderbird and buffalo hide are pretty much the same product just different names.  I have good results spraying both of them this way

[Mad Max]

When you spray to light of a coat, it's like water droplets on you windshield and when it rains harder you get full coverage.

[Bowjunkie]

As I  spray, over the course of several hours, I just leave the finish in a lidded peanut butter jar on the work bench. It doesn't 'set' in the jar at the same rate it does when atomized from a gun. Overnight or longer, it goes in the fridge. I allow it to come up to room temperature, and then check the viscocity before I begin spraying again. If I have to add a splash of thinner to get it to the right consistency, I do.

The gun is cleaned, and ran, with cheap lacquer thinner between sessions. I don't leave finish in the gun.