QUOTE(veron4best @ Dec 30 2017, 06:45 PM)
This is not correct. A thick coat of PU paint plus PU gloss or acrylic coat will be hard to scratch and will last almost forever if not exposed to sun.You also asked about if acrylic wrapped board can be tapered or rounded edge. The answer is yes. But you seemed not fully understand that acrylic is not limited to panel for lamination. In Malaysia the so called acrylic is delivered in the form of 3G/4G or whatever that means, those with that fugly alu extrusion as frame. But acrylic can also be in liquid form to be applied with spray gun or thin sheets that wrap around panels directly or on top of painted board with heat press and high end ones use heat form with vacuum. But you will rarely see workshop here has this capability.
If you are on budget then use it strategically. The carcass use polywood, door panel and drawer use MFD or whatever cheap shit that fits your budget. Remember door, drawers and even your top comes and go but your carcass stays. As for surfacing just use lamination la. You can relam every 10 years to keep it up to date. Relam is very easy, just that all workshop will scare you one.
QUOTE(advocado @ Dec 30 2017, 07:16 PM)
for the spray paint, i think it's plywood because MDF might not hold on together enough if it's just the thick paint holding them together. but the paint is really really thick that it looks just like a glossier Acrylic. the manufacturing process also more difficult but i believe it's also popular for dining tables & tv cabinets. really expensive.
Any panel can be painted. But a good paint process need to be "roast" the word you used, aka oven cured. Then need to buff or polish. The oven cure takes a day and buff and polish take equal time. Very labour intensive.Actually a good lamination of formica also need to be vacuum cured. But in malaysia, not many workshop even aware of this procedure. Only a few factories is doing it.
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