[mechman]

So what next? The only matte that I know of is Behr 780 and it's known to yellow!?!?!? Well I headed back out to Lowes and picked up another quart of the flat VCP and a quart of the satin VCP. I already had a gallon of Minwax satin Polycrylic. I also picked up a quart of Olympic water based satin polyurethane. I have yet to use the Olympic in any of the test mixes yet but intend to add it next week.

Now the question is why 50/50? Why not 60/40? And which finish ratio? So I donned the lab coat, carried my True Value Winter Mist panel out to the garage and started mixing poly's. I went from 80/20 down to 50/50 and varied the mixes from satin to flat. This was all done in Valspar Clear Protector. I then added a mix of 60% flat VCP to 40% Minwax satin and a 50% flat VCP to 50% Minwax satin.

On the left side of the panel we have:

1. 80% flat VCP / 20% satin VCP
2. 70% flat VCP / 30% satin VCP
3. 60% flat VCP / 40% satin VCP
4. 50/50 flat and satin VCP

On the right side of the panel we have:

1. 80% satin VCP / 20% flat VCP
2. 70% satin VCP / 30% flat VCP
3. 60% satin VCP / 40% flat VCP
4. 60% flat VCP / 40% satin Minwax
5. 50% flat VCP / 50% satin Minwax