: I'm sure that a clean place to apply it, and an even temperature helps a lot.
: I suspect that the dust falling off the trusses in my shop causes a lot of
: the poor varnish results I get

Don, I never thought this room would become my boat room since I built it onto the end of the garage for a workout room. But it was clean for varnishing and epoxying and warm through the winter. But I really got my exercising. I carried the boat out into the garage or outdoors everytime I sanded. It seemed like a hundred times. I would like to build a Shooting Star, I think it is, but the room may not be long enough.

John