RE: any experience with da vinci brushes

 
Interesting... My da Vinci brushes are the ones with a black tipped red
handle (series 5080: http://www.davinci-defet.com/medien/massta50.pdf)
and never experienced rust with them (I agree that rust is a killer for
iron processes - have experienced this with relatively cheap Pebeo
brushes; in the form of dark streaks which ruins the print). Some of
these have been used since 2003 (presumably not as often as you do) and
never noticed any rust - seems like stainless to me. I don't have the
brush in front of me right now but can't remember any rivet nails (can't
see any nails in the .pdf too) - usually it's the nails that get rusty
(and that's for low quality products), not the ferrules...
 
Regards,
Loris.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Ender100@aol.com [mailto:Ender100@aol.com]
Sent: 23 Şubat 2006 Perşembe 20:10
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: any experience with da vinci brushes

Hi,

I had a Da Vinci brush before I got the Richeson. It was a great
looking brush and I thought it would work great.... and I think it was
only $25. I used it a few times and then my PT/PD printing started to
go bad-I thought at first it had to do with chemistry and got fresh FO,
etc... then I noticed that there was a streak of rust running from both
the rivets in the ferrule all the way down the bristles to the tips. As
a test I used a fresh foam brush and found that it wasn't my chemistry.
So I tossed the Da Vince and ordered a Richeson. The Richeson is really
worth it. It has much better action than the Da Vinci and absorbs less
material. It didn't rust either-the rivets in the ferrule were
stainless.

But then, that's just my experience. I'll stick with the Richeson.

Mark I. Nelson
www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com
www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com
PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups

In a message dated 2/23/06 11:02:14 AM, mail@loris.medici.name writes:

I can't say anything about the Richesons since I haven't used them. I
have several Da Vinci brushes and they're truly wonderful!!! But even
with the 40% price cut, $75 seems high to me - I recently purchased a 3"
Da Vinci brush for $19 here in Istanbul... I guess this price difference
is due to the high shipment/importation costs to the States (if I'm not
wrong, this is a German product).
Regards,
Loris.
Received on Fri Feb 24 02:10:41 2006