Ayone know where a good place to buy brushes and buckets in bulk is?
Harbor freight for brushes.
Revchem for buckets.
At least in my area
where are you located?
Hard to beat Harbor Freight for price and ease of access for chip brushes. Occasionally they have them on sale and they are even cheaper. Buy 'em by the box. They also have cheap scissors. The plastic ones with the metal blade around the edge. They are normally around $2, but are occasionally on sale at $ .79 cents. At that price you can throw them away when they dull or get resin on 'em. They cut 6 and 4 oz cloth just fine. You can buy Argee paper and plastic buckets at Home Depot. The plastic ones have a measure scale on the side. Really good for epoxy. Argee has a website and sells by the case to the public. They are located in Santee(San Diego area). Greg Loer's Epoxy video says the best mixing sticks are just regular wooden paint sticks available for free at HD or any paint store.
I like to use the flat tongue depressors/popscicle stick/craft sticks
you can get big boxes…if you do HUGE batches then definitely the paint stirrers…but the smaller ones are good for those little spots in the cups.
buying chip brushes by the box as mcding recommends is the only way to fly…never buy those chip brushes at Home Depot/Lowes…they are 2-4x what you pay per brush when you get the boxes from automotive paint and fiberglass supply places. it may seem trivial, but when you use 4 or 6 brushes a board at $1.50 it starts to become a larger and larger percentage of cost.
Costco Paper cups in 32 oz size work well for alor of stuff if you are doing poly and you can get alot of boards out of 1 cup if you arent mixing colors.
Better yet, find a friend who works at KFC. I kid, but foodservice wholesalers have great deals on big cups and buckets. and Chopsticks for mixing
Better yet, find a friend who works at KFC. I kid, but foodservice wholesalers have great deals on big cups and buckets. and Chopsticks for mixing
Hey! Here's a couple more sources. www.e-Encore.com. for gradiated/scale clear plastic buckets like you would use for Epoxy. 1-800-336-2673. I think they have 1qt. 2.5 qt. and 5 qt. Says made in the USA. That's a novelty! Also for paper pales/buckets food grade try; Instawares 1-877-450-3629. They have "Sweetheart" paper pails, unwaxed. Will hold Polyester Resin, but Acetone will soak thru the bottom seam. So don't think of using them to soak your squeege in. They are the white paper pails that you see in most glass shops. They had 2 qt. and 1 qt. listed. Good prices but these two are bulk only and have minmum orders in the $200 range.
By the way I bought several boxes of razor blades the other day at Harbor Freight for $2.99 per box containg 100 blades. That's less than .03 cents each.