Thread: Necessity is the mother of invention!

Ha,

I never thought you'd be the type to use a brush stand, Ilija

By the way, did you get your brush from Matt? I seem to remember ebony and silver inlay, which sounds very appealing!

Cheers
Ivo

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Great work on the brush stand idea. Too bad I already blew $8.50 on that Kent stand or I'd have copied your idea by now lol.

Ivo,
I'm all about maintaining the functionality of my gear. According to some opinions, a stand does that. As for my order with Matt, there are still some ahead of mine, so I have to be patient. However, the reward will be sweet

Yes, sounds great!

I am not advocating trashing your gear! I just thought that for all I know the best experts are divided on this, people have used brushes 40+ years without any stand w/o problems... And, for some reason, you seemed to me like a person who believes in capillary action

Cheers
Ivo

With my scientific background, I do believe in it, but since I took engineering, I also believe in redundancy (hedging my bets). In any case the cost was only 15% of the brush's price, so it seemed worth it.

OK, Ilija.

Here's a thought:

Whe the brush is in the stand, gravity pulls water to the tips. Doesn't capillary action then take it back to the base (in the stand)?

By the way I also wonder: I don'd use a stand, then gravity pulls water to the base, capillary action gets it up in the tips.

From this it seems the real question is: what is stronger - gravity or calillary action?

Eventually stand and no stand may turn out to be virtually the same...

Actually it depends on the amount of water saturation. The more saturated the brush is, the stronger the gravity is (relative to the capillary action). However, the more moisture there is, the more damaging it can be to the knot. Therefore, I prefer to start with the gravity being stonger. I.E. Brush stand.

Q.E.D.

Aha - and I snap around like crazy, gotta see it to believe it. when I'm done, my brush is virtually dry

Now, what may seem anal to others - I make sure that my snaps diminish in strength gradually, while turning the brush in my hand, so that the bloom is not crooked