Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
Navy,
Using SPI as a reference point, their orange and red base go for $298 and change per gallon, or $96 and change for a quart. Reducers and catalysts add up pretty quick, too, and then there's all of the "other" stuff like abrasives, cleaners, polishing compounds, etc, etc. Seems like every time I'm walking out of the paint store I've left several portraits of Ben Franklin behind.
This thread is remaining reasonable on the subject (one of the benefits of a small audience I guess), but I'm still amazed when those who don't buy refinish products either regularly or at all seem shocked when you tell them it's easy to drop $1500 on up to the sky on ALL the materials required to do a good refinish. Abrasives (good ones anyway) are up there, as is a roll of good tape for that matter.