The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk sealing oak boards

I cant find the old post on this,I have my new oak boards and I want to have a nice gloss finish
to them, someone suggested to buy a automotive
polyurathane,I have been to Napa,carquest,and autozone. They have never heard of this product
Did I get sent on a snipe hunt to buy a sky hook
or does this really exsist. All Ideas welcome

It exists--I've seen it. But I don't know that its appropriate with wood.

Ive heard this also. I planned to use automotive clear coat on my wood when the truck is ready for it.

Can't say that I've heard of it except as it would apply to automotive paints. Might be available in clear and perhaps thats what the guy meant.

I used the recommended marine spar poly varnish on my pine floor and it's not holding up well at all. Three coats and still doesn't look right.

Check over in the "Making a Stovebolt Bed" Forum... lots of discussion going on about finishes there. Bed supplier Mar-K has also been experimenting with different finishes.

Mar-K has pictures of my bed on their web site and I just used regular poly with a lot of wet sanding between. Looks good after 2 years but am going to wet sand and give it another coat this year

Marine Spar Varnish - about 10 coats brushed on with light sanding between coats will give you a long lasting finish. My finish is on for ten years and it looks new.

Here is the key - you MUST do both sides and the edges of all of the boards. In other words, encase them or seal them totally!

That will do the trick. Look at my bed and side boards on the link below! It's perfect and I did it in 1997. I was told to do it this way by a paint manufacturing company tech.

Joe

I'm in the middle of this job. Oak bedboards. I'm using Sikkens Cetol Marine Light...four coats...followed by 3 coats of Sikkens Marine Gloss. Sold in marine supply stores. Goes on very smooth and even, with a nice light tone and good UV protection. What I really like is the mfg recommends no sanding between coats. I did another set of oak bedboards years ago with a highly rated marine spar varnish, sanding between coats, etc and this Sikkens stuff looks better. COmpletely agree with Joe that all surfaces must be coated.

Thanks for the info, Marine seems to be the way
to go,scince I live on the lake I will visit the
marinas.

I used the marine spar varnish and mine looked good after 8 years with 4 good coats on all sides. On the Mar-K Bed forum he suggest using a primer before the spar urethane. I think the post was around Jan 20th as I ask the same question as you when I wanted to freshen up mine. On that post Mar-K list the experiments that have been done, how long they have been in process and so forth. It is a good read. Just more info!!