"Duane Bozarth" wrote in message
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Amun wrote:

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All of those "citrus" cleaners are still oil based and may be great on
a
real bristle brush. (that water based products might damage)

Water-based products won't "damage" any brush I've ever seen made for
painting. Some might not flow as well or hold the optimum amount of
paint but that's going overboard w/ caution, imo.


Beg to differ and most professional painters and furniture refinishers who
know their stuff will verify this.

Brush websites should have it too.

If you know a real pro who uses paint brushes daily, go ask the loan of a
natural bristle brush to put on that next coat of latex in your livingroom.
And count the number of times they use "naughty words"


No natural bristle brush should be used for any water based finishes, or
even cleaned with water.
Oil based paints stains, urethanes only.

You can, but the bristles will split, fray and go funny.
After a few times in water, you just toss it, because you will never get a
decent finish with it.

Few know this, and most of the jerks at the big box stores won't often know
the reason they sell both types either.

Synthetic bristles are not just more popular just because they are often
cheaper, but as most people use latex/water based paints, they simply work
better.

And there are some synthetic bristles that are also for oil based products,
but these are usually as pricy as the natural ones.

If you just want to slap some paint on, and don't really care, use what you
want, but sometimes there are reasons that some paint brushes cost 49 cents
and some cost $50.00+.



AMUN