We have a customer who is not wanting (nor are we) one of the typical thick poured bar top finishes on a commercial bar top. We've been extremely impressed with WB, MLC 2K and even Target 9300 with cross linker. As opposed to a bar top finish my gut was Polarion but would really appreciate your input. We have to have Polarion shipped in as local distribution doesnt inventory it and we would have to buy a case of catalyst just to shoot a gallon or two of material.

We have had great success with Polarion in commercial environments, a couple big bar tops and numerous table tops. In fact, even the small scuffs blend in much better than the scratched up and never perfectly clean epoxied tops we have done on commercial bars. The solution used to clean the epoxied tops always seems to leave a dirty film behind on the Elitecrete epoxy we use.
Where are you located?

Thanks Josh,
We are in WV. Very limited access to a lot of stuff here locally. Restaurants in the area are full of thick plastic poured finishes (owner applied), live edge, etc.. The typical bar top that a few months down the road feels "sticky" when you slide up to it.

Not what this location is going for. I was a hair from rolling the dice with Aguatana which, as I mentioned, has been pretty bullet proof but we have the same supply side issues.

ML Campbell needs to have a program in markets they are trying to break into where dealers can order singles for customers who want to move into, o try, their less-standard offerings. There is no way on a single job you can burry having to buy an entire case of catalyst (6) and a case of material (4 gallons) to shoot a gallon or two of material. You wind up having 4 gallons of material and 6 quarts of catalyst and your waiting for another job worthy of burning the remaining material before it goes in the dumpster on expiration and you'll likely never burn through the catalyst. We've tossed a good bit of Aquatana catalyst for this very reason.

Ive got the Polarion and catalyst shipping Fedex from a distributor outside the territory. Thanks.

I finish a local woodturners burl sinks that he sells worldwide. I finish them with MLC Polarion. I've fished upwards of 75 of these sinks over the last 5 years and have not had
1 failure/ call back. Granted most of these sinks/ works of art end up in powder rooms in NYC, Paris and Dubai that see minimal use but some have ended up in high end spas that see daily hard use. MLC Polarion has worked for me.

Mark, both Atlantic Plywood and Richeleiu handle Polarion and ship Fedex to us. They have multiple branches in Eastern US. My closest is Rochester NY. I would think you could order from either. I've had good luck with Polarion myself on some commercial bartops by the way. One note, if you are doing an open grain wood like walnut or mahogany either use a filler first or order an extra box of 320 sanding discs. The stuff is HARD and eats up even ceramic discs when sanding between coats.

Thanks John,
Ordered it out of DSI and ran several tests. I dont care for solvent finishes in the shop but its really nice stuff (other than the cost). I have some test running between it and prodcuts like Target 9300 with crosslinker. We brought in the interior finish.

Open grain like Walnut is passable for us with 2 coats leaving a very small amount of grain texture. Cutting it back pretty hard and a 3rd is leaving dead flat/smooth which beats grain filler though it likely wouldnt fill on a heavily open pore like red oak.

Im hoping the tests with the 9300 and MLC Aguatana 2K keep us in water but I dont like the Aguatana for the iso.

Thanks a bunch for the reply. Much appreciated.