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I am a water base fan. Couldn't pay me any sum to use anything as toxic as nitro. Kiss your liver goodbye in my books. I guess nitro can be used safely with good precautions. You might not want to but you could drink a waterbase finish and survive. I do not think the same could be said of solvent based finish. I think nitro does give a better finish. That aside, i have been using ktm9 with good results. it is a more difficult product to work with than nitro but i think the health issues make it worthwhile.

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Greg
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I have about 10 guitars done with KTM and have yet to see a problem. Having said that I still don't use it any more because I never could get it right. I found it too easy to sand through while leveling and just difficult to work with. I am now using Color Tone and like the results though I don't have any Color Tone finished guitars older then about two years.

I'll never use Nitro again.