OT: High Chair Finish

Use a gloss enamel. The gloss will help repel water better than a flat paint. Rustoleums "Painters touch" paint? Avaible in spray or cans. Lots of colors. ( Has good UV protection too)

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Out in front: two pack, powder coat, or baked acrylic laquer

Next: conventional acrylic laquer, marine paints.

I think you would do just fine with either a urethane varnish if you want to see the chair material. Or any of the epoxy based paints should resist water well and be hard to chip.

My dad finished some nice mahogany furniture with urethane and it still looks good 40 years later resisting glass rings all that time.

You probably don't want to use an epoxy with young kids - unless it is certified as food grade

How do you powder coat a wooden chair?

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

If its currently varnished and you want it to be restorable for a fourth generation, start by revarnishing, allow to dry thoroughly then overpaint with a compatible paint fron the same manufacturer as the varnish. That way, it keeps the pigment out of the wood grain so it can be stripped back and refinished with a clear finish without too much trouble in the future.

If its painted and it dates back to the 70's or earlier you need to get the existing paint tested for Lead.

There are specialist food safe paints suitable for surfaces in direct food contact, but most fully cured *clear* two-pack finishes are resonably benign. Most of the toxicity comes from solvents and uncured resin remnents, pigments, and heavy metal driers in one-pack products.

The paint system used in the rest of the kitchen may not be suitable for direct food contact.

I don't know the details, I only know it's posstible.

I learned something today.