Robbyrockett2
Air-Valve Autobot!
Yeah, I definitely wasn't aware of the brand back then, though the company was like 30miles from my house. I was probably more concerned with skateboards and the latest social distortion album at that point .IIRC Matthews was a one stage paint, I think the owner still clear coated them as we did I lot of huge signs, like hospitals, it would make sense PPG probably bought them out somewhere in the late 90's once base coat clear coat became the norm, if I ever painted something for outside that needed to last I would definitely still use Matthews, and great thing about matte is it hides all the dust and imperfections, as we had to paint the bigger signs outside of the paint booths.
Speaking of matte I remember what a pain it was to color match with a matte clear, you had to take in account what the matte clear did to the color, almost having to go 3 sheens(or whatever you call it) richer.
The matte doesn't seem to do that so much anymore but it will go glossy too if you put too much on unlike some older versions. I'll use Mathews for anything that doesn't have to have super deep showroom gloss , the UV abuse it takes is unreal. The gloss I would put as better than industrial but not show clear. Best part is , it will go over just about anything, we used it over latex, spray bomb, artist acrylic, wood,wood stain, anything.