But the rest of us call it "CA finish" or "acrylic coated" to hype it up a bit, instead of calling it "super glue".

Really popular in call making and pen turning to coat with CA (cyanoacrylate), for exactly the reason DIY mentioned, you can put a beautiful gloss on a call quite easily. A lot of call makers will argue that it's more brittle, and if you ding the CA finish, the chipping is much harder to repair (unsightly) than a ding in an unprotected wood surface, but CA's still very popular.