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 We got an early start today and I got going on finishing this Nanny Rocker. I started out by vacuuming the finishing room thoroughly, then turning the dust sucker on the rocker. This removed all the loose sanding dust, but it's still a good idea to wipe it down with a tack rag to get it all. With that done I took it into the finishing room and rolled the rocker over on it's back so I could start the finishing with the under side.
 When the lacquer on the lower edges of the rockers was dry I set the piece upright and used the finishing spinner to turn it as I applied a thorough coat of lacquer to each side of the rest of the nanny rocker. This will need to sit for a while and dry thoroughly.
Once the finish is good and hard I can carry the rocker back to the assembly room to scuff sand it and tack it off again before bringing it back into the finishing room to shoot the second coat just like I did the first. For scuff sanding I use a very fine sanding sponge. This just levels the first coat; knocking off any nubblies and leaving a very smooth base for the second coat.
Catalysing finishes, such as most oil-based finishes, often require scuffing between coats to provide some "tooth" on the previous coat for the new coat to grab onto as it dries. Not so with lacquer. It is a solvent based finish so each fresh coat will slightly dissolve the coat below and bond to it. But I like the "smooth as waxed" feel of lacquer that has been leveled between coats.
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