Thread: Liquid Latex & Paint Brushes

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I like to use liquid latex and cotton on most of my creations, it gives me that certain look I like so much.
I use china chip paint brushes to apply the latex and to help form the cotton batting.
Foam brushes don't seem to work very good for me.

As most of you know, once you use a brush in liquid latex it ruins it and it has to be trashed.
Obviously this could get pricey.

I found a seller on Ebay that sells them rather cheap.
I bought some of them some time ago and have used them for corpsing and other projects around the house.

If anyone is interested in them, they can be viewed at his Ebay store.
The ones I purchased were the 2 inch variety, 48 brushes for 16.99 with shipping.
If my brain cell are working and my calculator batteries are ok, then that comes out to about 35 cents per brush.
For me that is the cheapest I have found any brush

Just thought I'd pass this along to anyone interested

Harbor Freight also has one and two inch chip brushes that I use and they work very well. They sell in boxes of 36 for 9.99 which puts them in at .27 cents each. They often have them on sale and right now the two inch is 8.99 so that is .24 cents each. I have used the same brush for dozens of applications. The latex is water soluable and if you use warm water with dish soap to clean it out you can reuse the same brush over and over. For the stubborn dried stuff that get in the brush up by the handle use a wire brush like you would find in the paint department at home depot and brush from the handle end out to the tip of the brush and it will get the stubborn stuff out of the brush. Here is the link to Harbor Freight http://search.harborfreight.com/cpis...ord=chip+brush

bw1, I thank you for the info.
There isn't a Harbor freight with 50 miles of me, so I never even thought to check them out, even on line.

I guess you're never too old to learn.

I have heard that dish soap and hot water will help clean the brushes, but never tried it.

Don't forget the wire brush to get the stuborn stuff out. When a pro painter first showed me that trick I thought it was going to reck the brush but he had used the same brush for 5 years. Latex paint is just like the latex we use.

I just plunk mine in water between coats and it lasts for a long time. Just take it out and whack out the residue which takes about 10 seconds.