john hamilton wrote:
Was in Camden Town the other day with some time to waste. Ended up looking
around a quite well stocked ironmongers that had a lot of good paint brushes
hanging up.

There were a few brushes there in the normal kind of widths, but were quite
thin (about half the thickness of a usual bristle brush).

The assistant said that they were varnish brushes. Looking back on it i
cannot think why varnish brushes would be thinner. Can anyone say why
please?


I always choose a well worn but scrupulously clean brush for varnish. I
don't want to carry lots of varnish in the brush but instead want to
concentrate on fine finish and removing brush marks.
I bought a lot of brushes surplus years ago for the purpose of applying
cutting fluid on to work on the lathe and these were also much thinner
and embossed as varnish brushes. Maybe for similar reasons?

hth

Bob