How To Handle Your Paintbrush For Woodworkers

If you are an avid wood worker or do it yourselfer don’t you just hate it when the neighbor comes over to borrow one of your precious paintbrushes? Then a day or two later he lets you know that he returned your brush back to the workshop. You go to use it a week or two later and it’s hard as a rock.

No doubt if you are into doing a lot of various painting, you have a good selection of brushes and probably some more expensive ones as well. The first thing you need to learn is to clean and maintain your paintbrushes properly.

Even if you clean your brushes but do an improper job then the paint job you do with them is going to be inferior as well. All too often, a novice painter will blame a poor paint job on the paint when the real culprit is a poorly cared for paintbrush. If you don?t get yourself into the habit of cleaning your brushes properly then you might as well throw your money away because you are going to have to toss the brushes. Read the rest of this entry »