Saturday, June 22, 2013

Latest brushes and related tools

Now I have caught this blog up to my latest work.  About a week ago I made brushes from blue buck tail - yet another foray into my fly tying materials - they are dyed to tie different flies.  The wife loves the look of the blue bristles and has already run tests to be sure the blue dye won't run into the glaze or affect how the glaze fires.  The brush passed her tests so now I'm moving into the occasional colored brush.


And while I was at PGNJ last month, one of the potters showed me a sponge-on-a-stick that she'd picked up somewhere but which was disintegrating from constant use.  She wondered if it was something I could make.  The answer - a resounding "Yes!" and we'll see what she thinks of this tomorrow at the next PGNJ meeting:

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