Painters:Badger blender static?

Joseph Tracy · Post by **Joseph Tracy** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:15 am

One of my greatest frustrations in painting glass is the appearance of dust and hairs which seems to occur most often when using a blender. I remember in a physics class where the teacher rubbed a glass rod with some fur to give it a large static charge. Could this be happening with the badgerhairs on the glass, and creating the dreaded static cling? Has anyone found this problem or better yet, a way to alleviate it?
Hi everyone; it's been a while. I 've been checking in but haven't had much to say.

Bert Weiss · Post by **Bert Weiss** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 9:08 am

Joseph Tracy wrote:One of my greatest frustrations in painting glass is the appearance of dust and hairs which seems to occur most often when using a blender. I remember in a physics class where the teacher rubbed a glass rod with some fur to give it a large static charge. Could this be happening with the badgerhairs on the glass, and creating the dreaded static cling? Has anyone found this problem or better yet, a way to alleviate it?
Hi everyone; it's been a while. I 've been checking in but haven't had much to say.

Try washing your blender with soap and warm water (not hot).

Bert

Dani · Post by **Dani** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 3:17 pm

Have you tried the guilders trick of running the bristles over your head? Or perhaps this is another job for nose oil. (Extensive writing on this in Lapidary Journal.)

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 4:09 pm

Dani wrote:Have you tried the guilders trick of running the bristles over your head? Or perhaps this is another job for nose oil. (Extensive writing on this in Lapidary Journal.)

Your homework is to write 100 times;

This is how I spell gilder!

Dani · Post by **Dani** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:10 pm

Your assignment is to make friends with "Dic"(tionary... we calls him "Dick" 'cause we went to school together. I know at least one person on this board who can attribute that quote!) Both spellings are correct and relate to the application of gold leaf. Secondly, the blender in question is a large brush made of badger hair.... not the whirly kind that you plug into a wall socket. How many of you out there were confused?

Grins,

Dani

Joseph Tracy · Post by **Joseph Tracy** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 8:07 pm

I frequently wash my blender with soap and warm water. I take it no one else has encountered this so perhaps ambient dust, but it seems to happen after several smooth dust free blending strokes, then dust seems to appear.

I have to tell you I feel laughed at here. Ha Ha.

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 4:59 am

Joseph Tracy wrote:I frequently wash my blender with soap and warm water. I take it no one else has encountered this so perhaps ambient dust, but it seems to happen after several smooth dust free blending strokes, then dust seems to appear.

I have to tell you I feel laughed at here. Ha Ha.

Not at all Joseph, nobody is laughing at you. I clean and dry my brushes the same way as Bert described. Then store them 'whiskers up' in a glass. The bristles have a paper 'hat' to keep them clean and dry.

I try to keep the workplace, as when gilding, as clean and dust-free as possible.

HTH,

Paul

Bert Weiss · Post by **Bert Weiss** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:22 am

Paul Stevenson wrote:
Not at all Joseph, nobody is laughing at you. I clean and dry my brushes the same way as Bert described. Then store them 'whiskers up' in a glass. The bristles have a paper 'hat' to keep them clean and dry.

I try to keep the workplace, as when gilding, as clean and dust-free as possible. Paul

Joe

Ditto

I'd love to learn a trick relative to keeping paint cleaner.

Bert Weiss · Post by **Bert Weiss** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:23 am

Paul Stevenson wrote:
Joseph Tracy wrote:I frequently wash my blender with soap and warm water. I take it no one else has encountered this so perhaps ambient dust, but it seems to happen after several smooth dust free blending strokes, then dust seems to appear.

I have to tell you I feel laughed at here. Ha Ha.
Not at all Joseph, nobody is laughing at you. I clean and dry my brushes the same way as Bert described. Then store them 'whiskers up' in a glass. The bristles have a paper 'hat' to keep them clean and dry.

I try to keep the workplace, as when gilding, as clean and dust-free as possible. Paul

Joe

Ditto

I'd love to learn a trick relative to keeping paint cleaner.

Don Burt · Post by **Don Burt** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 6:31 pm

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Joe

Ditto

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I made all my palettes (pallets?) for each color about 11" square., so they'd fit inside large ziplock bags. That keeps the dust out of them and I can stack them. I also keep my badger blender upright, in a bud vase and there it stays: I use an airbrush.

I was recently taught by people who really know their stuff to only wash the tip of the badger blender, and only occasionally at that. But that was after I did years of washing the whole thing and spinning it between my hands so the water flies all over the place.

Dani · Post by **Dani** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 6:46 pm

I, too, love the twirling technique simply for the drama. Washing the entire brush is, of course, not good for the wood into which the badger hair is inserted. Over time, this causes the hairs to fall out, and is true of any brush. With very expensive brushes like blenders that cost upwards of $200 and should last for decades, well, how you wash them becomes a major issue. I have a nice little palette cabinet in which I slide the glass trays and that holds at least two dozen. Very handy.

Cheers,

Dani

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