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Does anyone know where you can purchase a brush tray made for lettering brushes. I know I can make one out of a tool tray but there got to be one out there thats ready to go. I guess I can go with the tool box and tray. It always worked before. I guess I just wanted to get fancy . This is probably a stupid question. I want one that I can put oil in and lay the brushes flat with a slight angle on the brush.
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Pat King taught Bill a great trick....floral clay! You roll snakes of it out to lay two crosswise in the tray of your choice and then you just press your brushes down into it to make an indentation.... The brushes stay right where you put them, they are custom fit for that brush and you can always change them as things change. WHA-LAA! Works like a charm!
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That's a horse of a different color after you changed your post...Bill uses an old microwave tray the has grooves in it. I think it was intended for bacon? Anyway it has slanted slots that were intended for the grease to run off. It's perfect for this. Another thing he uses is just a flat sheet of aluminum. After he oils the brush up, the one end is stuck in floral clay (there it is again) and the hair end is either suspended or left flat on the metal. It's hard to describe, but it works.
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Ice cube tray here also. I picked up a couple at a flea market. Really old ones with the swinging handles on them. Flip the handle under the tray and the tray sits on an angle.
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I use an old cheapo taiwan tap and die set tin box I got at a flea mrkt many moons ago,..its just a stamped out tin box but its about a 14"x 6" and about 1/2" deep. I put a piece of wood on one side to raise the brush handles,..think its part of an old 5 gal stir stick,...when I was 14(1968?) the guy who was the head brush man at the shop I worked at had a tray that looked kind of like a roller tray without the ripples and ridges that he may have made on the brake at the shop for all his quills,..it had less of a slant on it so the brushes didn't slide down into the oil and bend the brush hairs,..I have yet to ever see another one so he had to have made this one himself and or had it made,..it was the perfect tray for the task.I have made one out of the verticle side of a square metal gallon thinner can in the past,..just cut about an inch or so off one side then sand the edges down so they won't cut you,I use a the flat side of a 5 gal stir stick on the bottom of one end to raise that side to keep a resevoir of oil at the hair end of the brushes
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I found a brush box just like this one Si posted, made by ArtBin at Michael's Craft store. I used it to pack my brushes when I went to meets in the UK. Still using it. Judy
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