seagiant
Cast Iron
- Joined
- May 24, 2005
- Location
- Central Fla. USA
Hi,
What are you guys using to roll with?
I'm getting lost in the sauce!
What are you guys using to roll with?
I'm getting lost in the sauce!
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Hi,
Wow!
Hard question I guess?
I use a soft 1" x 4" foam to spread it and wash in when dirty of put on a new one. You can buy them here at Home Depot of BIAX / DAPRA sells them too. The Biax ones are better then a foam paint roller. Also put them in a baggy when not using them. I have been using the hard ones recently and just ordered 2 from Amazon a 4" and 6" like the one above as many students especially use them in Europe. One thing don't forget to wipe your hand on the blue after it is rolled to feel for dirt.
If you didn't see in the forum I will be teaching a scraping / rebuilding class in the panhandle - Santa Rosa FL in January. We have room :-)
Cheapy hard rubber ones work nice with an oil based blue.
I like using a hard brayer, but the last Speedball I bought was atrocious. The axle pins were both way eccentric (1/8") and not in the same plane, so as you rolled the thing the handle went through some wide-angle helical gyrations. Almost impossible to roll out an even, thin coat of spotting ink.
For big bucks, you can buy a Japanese printmaker's brayer, but that's insanely overkill for this task. I've actually got some other inexpensive brayers on order, to see if they're any better made.
LOL! I don't know yet. That's one of the ones I have on order.Is it better than a Speedball?
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