Anxious to see your Alligator project when done. Sounds like a cool one. 

Yeah... I pitched a what became a famous hissy-fit one time after some summertime humidity clouded up a really nice sunburst I was working on for one of Dad's banjos. No amount of thinner wash coats or retarder would release that milky white. Had to start over from scratch.  Had Mom not been around, a big long string of swear-words mighta' happened.