howdy Joe and everyone. Here's my 3 cents worth!! I've done a lot of furniture, pool cue racks, shot glass racks, candle holders, etc., and love the polyurethane, don't know what the difference is between the "floor" poly & the regular Minwax stuff, I guess maybe the floor stuff may have other stuff in it, don't know. I tried the high gloss dipping solution that Penn State sales, I tried it diluted in 1/2 and even down to 1/3, rigged up some wire clothes hangers w/loops on the end (to keep blanks from flying off during shaking off excess) one turned out half-ass, but I really wasn't happy, because no matter how much throwing off excess, it still ended up with a slight bead on the bottom end. (even if I switched bottom to top, several times, same results) I went to the spray polyurethane (Minwax, gloss) A light short 2 or 3 spray on each area, overlapping slightly, let dry, sand with 320, wipe, repeat about 3 times & the finish is great!! (not too thick of coats or you may need to slightly hit it with foam brush) I wouldn't do the more exotic woods (cocobolo, maybe bocote, other oily woods) I did a cocobolo bottle stopper, 1 coat of poly and it was still tacky after 5 days. My older brother suggested that "those exotic woods" have oil in them & won't adhere to the poly. He was right. So I cleaned it with mineral spirits, & finished it with the Crystal Coat (Rockler) & Ren wax. Looks great!! It works on olive wood, the laminated striped pieces, the spalted tamaring, maple, zebrawood. Haven't tried any others I can thing of, Hope this helps!!!
Ronnie