Pinstripers - School me...

It has been my personal experience that t******* brushes is complete horse ****.After 15 or 17 years I have come to the conclusion that this is something that experienced guys talk about to confuse ameteurs. I mean, if you have an annoying stray hair,chop it off. This comes from a guy who uses green ferrule Macks which are supposed to be not so good.

 

good to know

 

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t******* brushes is complete horse ****.

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This is not entirely accurate. I have a #4 Mack that used to belong to Tommy the Greek. I've seen a couple of other brushes that he used, and it it looks like he almost always started with a #4 brush and trimmed it down to make a brush for whatever line-width he needed.

I will agree that t******* is not for everyone...I personally don't do it because I like my lines to come to a point. And it is definitely easy to ruin a brush with a razor blade if you're not careful.

The blue-ferrel Mack's are better quality, but there's been lots of incredible work done with the old green-ferrel Mack Sword Stripers over the years... so don't get discouraged if that's all you can find.

As far as One Shot in the Waco area goes, try Tasco Auto Color on Franklin. If they don't have the color you want, they can get it. Ask for Kirk if he's there.

 

Some guys,like John Hannukaine and Alan Johnson,
trim their brushes so it's easier to turn REAL tight curves.

Other brushes are left as is for doing straight line work.

 

............MY experience?? It ain't the brush........it's the "brushee!" I have just about one of every brush made and am still not worth a ****. Some of these guys could stripe with broom straws. A good brush won't help a bad striper as much as a bad brush will hurt a good striper.
Get the best you can find, but PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!

 

B***, thanks for the reference, I knew you'd come through...

And how come you weren't at the Chupacabras meeting?

 

I have trimmed a brush before for some really fine stuff. It didn't hold as much paint but it would do hairline stripes. I like to use them as they cone from the store.

One of my favorite brushes I had to trim the handle to get the movement needed out of it. The handle is about an inch long now. I can almost stand the brush on its tip and still keep my ring and pinky finger on the panel. It makes it easier to roll through tight corners.


Anyone ever use one of those laser lines brushes?

 

for beginners like me "DON'T TRIM YOUR BRUSH" especialy if you don't know what your doing other wise just toss it and buy a new one. I fell into that trim your brush concept and ruined atleast 2 brushes but I didn't know what I was doing either. I only trim when I get a stray hair. I used to buy a brush a week but now I can't hardley make myself use a new brush, once I get used to the feel of what I can do with my brush its hard to start over getting to know a new one.......I have been sniffing way too damn much paint.......................