How to Choose a Paintbrush

Joe Truini from DannyLipford.com gives you some tips for choosing the correct paintbrush depending on the job you have to do.

If you’ve shopped for paint brushes recently, you may have discovered that it’s no easy chore picking the right brush for the job. That’s because the average home center store carries literally hundreds of brushes in every imaginable size and shape. Now the width of the brush relates to how wide the work pieces you’re painting. But it’s important to remember there are only two types of brushes, synthetic bristle brushes and natural bristle brushes. Now a natural bristle brush like this one here has bristles made of ox hair or hog hair, sometimes they’ll use badger. This is a perfect brush for applying an oil-base paint. Now for latex based paint, you want to use a synthetic bristle brush. This one has polyester-bristle, sometimes they're made out of nylon or a combination of poly and nylon. The reason you don’t want to use a natural bristle brush to apply latex paint is that the water and the paint will get absorbed by the bristles, they’ll become so limp you won’t be able to apply the paint. Okay, so you’d only remember two things now. You need a synthetic bristle brush for latex paint and a natural bristle brush for oil-based paints.