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Thread: Water Based Lacquer in Australia
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21st February 2014, 06:08 PM #1
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Water Based Lacquer in Australia
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?
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AndrewAndrew Armstrong
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8th April 2014, 03:25 PM #2
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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
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8th April 2014, 07:48 PM #3
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Apologies for unnoticed autocomplete errors.
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11th April 2014, 01:02 AM #4
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
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12th April 2014, 01:21 AM #5
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 clearray c
dunno what's more fun, buyin' the tools or usin' em'
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12th April 2014, 07:40 AM #6
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12th April 2014, 10:20 AM #7
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 cansray c
dunno what's more fun, buyin' the tools or usin' em'
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26th April 2014, 05:24 PM #8
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