Thread: How do you hang your brush?

I was just looking at my brush the other night and realized that a few of the hairs seemed to be pushed off to the side. It looks like when I hang my brush in the stand, I tend to hang it from the know where it meets the handle. This seems to push the hairs at the edge of the knot around and almost out of order. I ended up hanging the brush recently from the bottom most portion of the handle but it then rests with in a mm of the base of the stand.

Just curious about how you hang your brush. Do you hang it from the knot or from the handle?

Just curious, especially if there are any pros or cons on either situation.

Thanks,

Marc

Like this:

I hang mine the same way as Otto, with the holder resting where the knot meets the handle.

Ditto...tips touching anything would possibly result in a set to the bristles and inhibit drainage...

By the way Otto...that varigated handled brush is pretty neat...never seen anything like it!

Hello, Mark:

I hang my brushes in acrylic drip stands so that the tiny drops of water remaining in the hairs drip away from the handle.

I learned my lesson a long time ago, when I dried the brush and let it stand on the counter with the hairs pointing up. Eventually tiny drops of remaining water in the brush seeped into the wooden handle and cracked it.

Also, I always fluff up my brushes on the towel after thoroughly rinsing and drying. There is something to looking at a fluffy brush in the drip stand.

Almost all vendors carry various acrylic brush stands. Make sure the opening on the brush stand is big enough to handle your brush. Some brush stands take, say, brushes as large as 23 mm. If your brush is 25 mm. or bigger, it will not fit in the stand.

Regards,
Obie

Originally Posted by Stubear

I hang mine the same way as Otto, with the holder resting where the knot meets the handle.

+1, I am careful when placing a brush in a stand to avoid displacing any bristles. I have a number of brushes and rotate daily. A large and a small stand and use the appropriate stand depending on the size of the knot.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

+1, I am careful when placing a brush in a stand to avoid displacing any bristles. I have a number of brushes and rotate daily. A large and a small stand and use the appropriate stand depending on the size of the knot.

Same here. I am always careful about hanging my brush, bristles down, from the holder to avoid displacing any of the bristles.

Hopefully I'm allowed to post in this thread; I don't hang my brushes from anything. Instead, after flicking them as dry as possible by hand, I set them down standing up on their ends, with the bristles to the sky and let them dry that way.

There has been at least one lengthy debate as to whether one way is better than the other. In my personal experience, the way I use works perfectly well.

Chris L

I used to just stand mine up, but decided that this would let water pool in the knot, so I made a stand and it now hangs from the handle.

Velcro under the medicine cabinet. For flat bottom brushes.