You guys got any pics of how you keep your brushes or what you keep them in, I'm having a time keeping them straight and flat.
Here's an empty brush box I striped for a friend.The brushes are held in by the springs going across.Newer styles use pieces of slit foam to accomplish the same thing.
I have two boxes on was a duralast knife kit that i pulled everything out and lay my brushes in there. I picked up one from coastairbrush.com 16 bucks and its metal.. If you dont use brush oil you should start 2.
I use castor oil on my brushes, but I need a place to store them besides the card I got from the paint store. Safariknut, you got any pics?
http://www.coastairbrush.com/products.asp?cat=268 i use a big stanley work box for my entire job kit. the top has a removeable plastic tray similar to one in a tackle box or cheap plastic tool box. i just oil my stuff up and lay them in there. if they get out of sorts, i just straighten them out.
I had a problem of mice taking my brushes. 3 total. They must like the smell of the Kafka brush oil or squirrel hair. I put mine in an old time Alka Selzer bottle with a metal screw on cap. let's see em try and get um now.
i use a little light weight oil after use then elastic band mine to a tongue depressor board then store in a old metal grenade case with my 1-shot its air tight and easy to cary around been doing this for years and works fine fo me
Here's a link to a thread about sign kits over on StripeKult, hope you get some ideas: http://sketchkult.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=9351&highlight=oldbobsign
I have an old craftsman toolbox with a lot of flat drawers. You could probably find something similar at a yard sale or swap meet.
I took a couple of springs and attached to my box, oil he brushes up and put them in and seems to work great!
I use the florist foam from Michaels. After cleaning the brush, I'll treat the hair with neatsfoot oil, give it a liitle shape, and stand it up in the foam block. put it in a tool box with your cans around it and the brushes are standing up with nothin touching em til you're ready to use em.
Use a cigar box. Go to Lowe's and get the grooved ornamental 6 inch wide molding and cut it to fit inside the box. The molding looks like 1 by 6 with ball milled slots down the center. It keeps them flat and separated. If you travel just cut a foam block that will hold the brushes in the groves when the lid is closed.
Coreplast (like plastic cardboard box stock) cut in half thickness-wise exposing the inner spirals works well too. I used to just use cardboard box material and tear the one side off and lay the oiled brushes in that to store.An old sign guy showed me that one. When the cardboard gets saturated-toss it out.
Chad, Make a run to the local liquor store and see if they have or can give you a light wooden box that wines would come in. They've got a sliding lid and are typically anywhere from 1 bottle in size up to 5-6 bottles in size. If you got the one bottle sized box, and you needed more flat space, you could go somewhere like Hobby Lobby and pick up a wide strip of Balsa wood to build a shelf in the box.
I scored a hell of a deal of the famed Craigslist...I traded a Makita quick charger that my uncle was going to throw away for this "Machinist Toolbox" as the guy called it..Perfect for a stripers box...I only need to re-align the front locks..The center is off center and one on either side needs to be moved so they are symmetrical..Here's a few pics.. There is a full sixed swivel chair behind the box..
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