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Sablemark Brushmakers · est. 1954

Technical notes

Written at the benches, mostly for buyers and technicians who have to specify a brush and want to know what the numbers actually mean.

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Fine pointed brushes on a pale background

Why nobody's size 6 is anybody else's size 6

Brush sizes were never standardised. What to compare instead: fill diameter at the ferrule, out-length, and the weight of hair in the bundle.

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Brushes standing in a pot on a studio bench

Interlocking is a hand operation, and it shows within a fortnight

Bought-in pre-interlocked bristle behaves differently under a stiff oil. Here is the splay test we run and what it looks like on both.

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Brushes showing metal ferrules

Seamless or double-crimped brass: what each is actually for

A seam is a crevice, and a crevice holds pigment. That argument does not apply to a heavy hog bundle, which needs a grip a nickel ferrule cannot give.

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A handle being turned on a lathe

Seven coats, and why the last one is done by hand

The meniscus where lacquer meets ferrule is the only part of a handle a customer inspects closely. A dipping machine cannot see it.

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Brushes beside a watercolour box

Reversing the bundle: the step that decides whether a brush points

Hair has a root and a tip. Mix them and no amount of dressing afterwards will give you a point that returns.

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A jar of school brushes

What a foundation term does to a brush, measured

We took fifty returned Series 12 heads apart. Two failure modes account for nearly everything, and only one of them is the student's fault.

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