EXHIBIT 10-U AMENDMENT TO STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT This is an Amendment effective as of August 10, 1995, to a certain Stock Option Agreement dated November 10, 1994, between GUARDSMAN PRODUCTS, INC., a Delaware corporation, and PAUL K. GASTON pursuant...

                                                  EXHIBIT 10-U



                    AMENDMENT TO STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT


          This is an Amendment effective as of August 10, 1995, to a
certain Stock Option Agreement dated November 10, 1994, between GUARDSMAN
PRODUCTS, INC., a Delaware corporation, and XXXX X. XXXXXX pursuant to
action of the Board of Directors of Guardsman Products, Inc.

          Paragraph 2 of the November 10, 1994, Stock Option Agreement is
amended in its entirety as of the effective date of this Amendment to read
as follows:

          2.   TERM.  The right to exercise this option, in whole or
     in part, up to a total of 50,000 shares, shall commence on
     December 31, 1994, for a period of 10 years thereafter.  If any
     portion of this option is not exercised during the 10-year period
     of exercisability, the unexercised portion of the option shall
     lapse.

          Except as herein amended, said Option Agreement remains in full
force and effect as written.


                                   GUARDSMAN PRODUCTS, INC.


                                   By /S/ XXXXXXXX X. XXXXXXX, III
                                      Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, III
                                      Chairman, Organization/Compensation
                                        Committee



                                   GRANTEE:


                                   /S/ XXXX X. XXXXXX
                                   Xxxx X. Xxxxxx









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