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A lot of Auto Body Supply Shops used to carry these. They were my favorite. Scharff brushes out of Georgia had something comparable when I last bought a few years ago. With the paint the way it is today, I don't like the struggle I have to go through to stripe. Not like the "good old days" when the LEAD was killing us.
-------------------- Jerry Starpoli Starpoli Signs... since 1952
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Just last night as I was doing a few vehicles and I thought to myself how lucky I was to have learned and worked throughout the years when everything was good and now the paint along with the brushes, along with the solvents and all the other crappy problems, how on earth I stayed so long when companies failed me and my trade and as I look at how many changes I had to go through just in the past two years it makes me effin crazy. The 1010's were a masterpiece especially the ones which had the black plastic handles and had the markings NYC, the ones that followed came apart and from that time on, every brush and manufacturer in the USA sucked.
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
Dont give up yet. I striped 24 cars so far with the wooden handle Mack 1010. I called Mack and talked to a pleasant fella there.
He said someone from Canada supplied the "technology" about 6 months ago. Built on the same lines as the old grumbacher 1010. I prefered the old plastic handled 1020 but...well this will do.
So far it runs great for straight lines.
-------------------- Bart Robinson Bart Robinson Pinstriping Corpus Christi Texas Posts: 78 | From: Corpus Christi Texas | Registered: Jul 2006
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This post got me to thinking of just how many times a favorite brand of brush was discontinued. Like just about everybody I started on Macks and still use them a bunch. Somewhere in the very early eighties Rick Harris turned me on to Dominicans. I really liked those little guys but after a few years of using them, they were discontinued. I ran across Rick again and he was using something made by a large brush manufacturer, I want to say Langnickel but I could be wrong. I got to liking these almost as much as the Dominicans. Same deal, a few years they were discontinued Went to a Letterhead meet and watched Michael Murphy use a Hamilton. I bought one shortly thereafter and after a little time spent adjusting to them I really loved them. They lasted for awhile and guess what......discontinued I discovered the Cosmos brand through a magazine ad and they were my brush of choice until they too were discontinued. These were recently brought back by another manufacture but they are in no ways the same brush. Right now, I'm using Handovers. These things are really nice. They will hold a lot of paint and are great for doing large designs on an 18 wheeler. They will also pull nice straights and they turn for me better than anything I think I've ever used. They also last a long time. I guess I need to stock up on these before they too are discontinued.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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Bart, I use the Kafka and Lazerlines brushes today because as I see it they are not only brush manufacturers but users as well. The chance of these being discontinued while I still roam this planet are very slim. I'm not looking for new brushes or back to manufacturers who had always disappointed me in one reason or another and my lines are much different then most. I've been told that I am very harsh with my brushes so I've changed my way of using them to only 5 vehicles per brush as the price is irrelavent compared to what I take in from that brush. I'm old and can't take the bs relating to hair fallouts, egos and other assorted problems explained to me by persons who will never hold a brush, load it with paint and lay a quality line straight down the sides of a new luxury car and also hasn't an explanation of why the hair starts falling out from the get-go. How many times have you used any product only to be disappointed and than have them tell you they are working on a new and improved version, well I've had it with non users who have never been in my shoes and will stick with Kafka and Lazerlines till my fingers are numb
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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Well Joey, Id use what works. Your business and mine are totaly different. If I threw away a brush after 5 cars that would total up to 40 brushes a month.
We've had this conversation before ( you and I) havent we..
Mack Brush is a stand up sorta company, and I personally appreciate them workin up this new brush.
But hey, if you and I hang around long enough they'll all go away wont they.
-------------------- Bart Robinson Bart Robinson Pinstriping Corpus Christi Texas Posts: 78 | From: Corpus Christi Texas | Registered: Jul 2006
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Went to a Letterhead meet and watched Michael Murphy use a Hamilton. I bought one shortly thereafter and after a little time spent adjusting to them I really loved them. They lasted for awhile and guess what......discontinued ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
I discovered the Cosmos brand through a magazine ad and they were my brush of choice until they too were discontinued. ![[Bash]](graemlins/bash.gif)
These were recently brought back by another manufacture but they are in no ways the same brush. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Right now, I'm using Handovers. These things are really nice. They will hold a lot of paint and are great for doing large designs on an 18 wheeler. They will also pull nice straights and they turn for me better than anything I think I've ever used. They also last a long time. I guess I need to stock up on these before they too are discontinued.
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