Reply To: Paint Brushes – Help and Advice

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What about making some grips from sugru? It’d be perfect for that. The immediately obvious idea is to mould it over the paintbrush then when it needs replacing, slide the sugru off the brush and pop it onto a new one.

Thermoplastic (those little pellets you drop into hot water) would also do, but the finish would be quite hard – sugru retains a slight rubbery springiness. Then again, something like “blue stuff” or Oyumaru would give the benefits of both – heat to make pliable, wrap it around the brush and when done, simply cut it off, pop it into a pan of hot water and re-use on your next brush (if you’re careful you could even put finger indents into it while it’s setting on the brush if you want to be truly “egonomic”)