Thread: Water Based Lacquer in Australia

Hi, andrew
I Have not heard of the US based company you have mentioned so I can't offer a comment on their quality. However, If you head to your local Mitre 10 store you'll be able to pick up CABOT'S cabothane clear (waterbased, available in satin and gloss finish) for interior/exterior timber furniture,windows, doors and trim. If you're looking for an exterior lacquer solution, for flooring you may have to head down the decking oil route.

hope this has helped.

mitre 10

Originally Posted by Asquared

I am looking to find a supplier of water based lacquer in Australia. The one I have seen good reports about is called EM6000 from a US company called Target Coatings (http://www.targetcoatings.com/produc...n-lacquer.html). There is also another one called KTM9 that is sold by LMI in the US.

Does any one know where such products can be bought in Australia and better yet in Brisbane?

Thanks

Andrew

Yeah, I'd love to get hold of some QUALITY water based lacquer too - but I dont think you can buy any in Australia. i know a lot of people are wanting it so maybe its a business oportunity for someone.

Please let us know if you have any success sourcing Em6000.

Arron

Think you'll find most paint manufacturers now make a clear water based finish.

Google - Haymes Paints, Wattyle, Dulux, etc, etc.

Did tests with a number of them some 25 years ago, and at the time the best thing I could say about water based polyurethane was: "It does have one good characteristic.... The brushes wash out in water."

These water based finishes may well have changed quite dramatically over the last 25 years and one would really hope so as it is entirely possible that the whole finishing industry will have to go down the water based path some time in the not too distant future. Especially since most mineral turpentine, white spirits, stoddards solution, etc has been labled as carcinogenic and mutagenic unless it meets certain standards and as a rule most doesn't.

Cheers - Neil

behlens clear wb satin instrument lacquer is available from guitaraust
you will find the interior wb cabots etc to be very inferior to the em6000 em7000
if you want to buff to decent gloss

used a few cans of em6000 and it is painful to use but yields a very tough high gloss clear

Originally Posted by old_picker

behlens clear wb satin instrument lacquer is available from guitaraust
you will find the interior wb cabots etc to be very inferior to the em6000 em7000
if you want to buff to decent gloss

used a few cans of em6000 and it is painful to use but yields a very tough high gloss clear

So where did you get your em600 and in what way was it painful to use ?

Cheers
Arron

Originally Posted by Arron

So where did you get your em600 and in what way was it painful to use ?

Cheers
Arron

em6000 actually - i imported it from stewmac in the states
it took a lot of curing and there were problems with witness lines during the buffout that seemed to vanish ok on final buff
on one guitar i had some pretty major crazing on the back you gotta really want to use it
upside is that it is low voc and wash is with water

tip - dont leave it in your gun for more than an hour

stewmac have discontinued em6000 and now sell em7000 which i havent tried
mainly using oil finishes these days and if i get a flat colour job i use behlen nitro rattle cans

Originally Posted by Asquared

I am looking to find a supplier of water based lacquer in Australia. The one I have seen good reports about is called EM6000 from a US company called Target Coatings (http://www.targetcoatings.com/produc...n-lacquer.html). There is also another one called KTM9 that is sold by LMI in the US.

Does any one know where such products can be bought in Australia and better yet in Brisbane?

Thanks

Andrew

Becker Acroma have water based industrial coatings, look up their website for info. Top quality products.
Gus