Revtoby I use both hard as nails and gloss lacquer. Must say that lately I have used a lot more hard as nails as I had some painted head that I wanted and high gloss finish and hard as nails looked better. I never thin down the nail stuff but always do the lacquer. I have a a tying friend that uses polyunathane straight and never thins it a bit. Claims that thats the way to go. So it boils down to each his own. Heck seems I lose more jigs to the brush top than I do to poor tying and unraveled thread. But always use some sort of cement to finish a jig with. Those crappies sure can be toothy critters at times.

Redman