Sherwin Williams also but is a BIG hassle for me to get service and products, so I don't bother. ICA has good products. I understand Lilly does also, but I haven't used any since there is not a distributor close to me. I would like to recommend certain products, but find that the ball of wax changes so much when we are talking about nitrocellulose lacquer as compared to catalyzed coatings. Each coating from each supplier has differing properties from other coatings.
Some suppliers are easier to deal with than others.
How good are they at giving you tech support and helping you to get dug out of a hole. It is he who should be working to always improve and develop his hand-eye coordination so that you get the most out of the way that these finishes go on and how they look upon completion. Once you decide to advance from nitrocellulose lacquer to a catalyzed coating, the world of finishing becomes more complex. Some of these coatings are very temperamental, and each coating behaves differently according to how the manufacturer formulates that coating. Many shops elect to work with finish suppliers who custom-formulate the catalyzed coatings.