Oh Jeezus DW and Gambler. You guys are the man (men).

I put the dessicant air dryer on the compressor and did a couple of small jobs with gloss black. It looks like a glassy black lake - perfect. No fisheyes, so you are right, that's what the problem was. Thanks :)

No probs - man, just sharing my pain to lower the angle of the learning curve for others here.....