Ok, so I have several brushes now, and I have some totally jury-rigged coat hanger hook already in the bathroom closet. Time to take it to the next level, I thought.
I have browsed Ebay and such for brush stands, and I am embarrassed to say that money is tight. Most of those stands cost more than my brushes did, although there are a few that don't look too bad and I would consider buying ... but that's neither here nor there for the purposes of this post.
I like to think that I am a DIY kind of guy, and I have these grand plans on making a wooden rack / shelf with slotted cutouts to hang brushes from. Well, I may get around to that sometime within the next year, but what I needed was a better stand NOW. Instant gratification is a powerful compulsion.
So I had seen a stand that somebody made out of wire and thought I would try a similar idea. Went out and got a coat hanger and clipped the hook off, and grabbed a pair of pliers. I came in, got a brush for fitting measurements, and started bending.
And bending, and straightening, and bending, and tweaking, and more bending. I never got it square plumb and level, and I'm not pleased with how it turned out. I like the basic design, but I am convinced that freehand bending something like this is a really bad idea. It took me about two hours of fooling around with this thing until it was passable enough that I just finally gave up and declared it to be as good as it is going to get.
Maybe with a CNC bending machine, or with special jigs, I could do this right. I like the style, but I am probably not going to make another one considering the ordeal I just went through to make this one lol!
Thought I'd make a post about my experiences anyways
I have browsed Ebay and such for brush stands, and I am embarrassed to say that money is tight. Most of those stands cost more than my brushes did, although there are a few that don't look too bad and I would consider buying ... but that's neither here nor there for the purposes of this post.
I like to think that I am a DIY kind of guy, and I have these grand plans on making a wooden rack / shelf with slotted cutouts to hang brushes from. Well, I may get around to that sometime within the next year, but what I needed was a better stand NOW. Instant gratification is a powerful compulsion.
So I had seen a stand that somebody made out of wire and thought I would try a similar idea. Went out and got a coat hanger and clipped the hook off, and grabbed a pair of pliers. I came in, got a brush for fitting measurements, and started bending.
And bending, and straightening, and bending, and tweaking, and more bending. I never got it square plumb and level, and I'm not pleased with how it turned out. I like the basic design, but I am convinced that freehand bending something like this is a really bad idea. It took me about two hours of fooling around with this thing until it was passable enough that I just finally gave up and declared it to be as good as it is going to get.
Maybe with a CNC bending machine, or with special jigs, I could do this right. I like the style, but I am probably not going to make another one considering the ordeal I just went through to make this one lol!
Thought I'd make a post about my experiences anyways
