Should You Make Your Own Brushes?
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- In this video I attempt to make my own brushes from hair extensions. I Made a few paint brushes and two Urushi lacquer brushes.
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Honestly I came for the crafts but stayed for his personality. He's one of my favorite people to watch.
It's his genuine smiles that got me hooked
i agree 100 %, so his crafts is outstanding
I'm glad Inspector Clouseau is keeping busy during his retirement.
My father used to make brushes for our ceramics workshop, the best hair he found came from squirrels tails. And he used contact cement to glue them, because is waterproof once dry. The process of making a good brush is an art on itself but a good handmade brush is a wonderful tool.
Squirrel hair is pretty good as long as you don't need it to stay a specific shape once damp, it tends to fluff out when it gets wet so not ideal for water based paints (lovely for sign writing with leaded paints though), horse/pony hair tends to have the same problem. Ox hair is a good all rounder if you want to go down the organic route but synthetics really have come a long way and they're pretty hard to beat performance/cost wise.
In my opinion, squirrel hair is over rated.
Awful difficult to stick squirrel to a brush, they tend to wiggle and bite.
@Danger Bear 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did he glue the squirrels
Not Japanese but I'm living here. Those are pretty good kanji for your first attempt (better than mine honestly).
BTW, the "legs" that that you noticed (⺣) is actually a compressed version of the "fire" kanji (⽕).
It seems that they're often found in kanji for those that are known to be very swift. Like: birds, fish, horses, bears, clever RUclipsrs who make their own brushes... that kind of thing. ;)
@Pootis Man You might want to finish learning English first.
And in the next video, Uri is bald but has 30 or so brushes for sale!
(2020) in the next video, Uri is just bald ¦D
@@urituchmanpigeon Is the adpocalipse that rough? lol. Love your videos man, I really love your fearless "hands on" approach.
😂🤣😂
@Danger Bear 👈 haha this guy. Nicely done.
Because as we all know, fish and pigeons are well-known four-legged creatures!
😂
Fish fingers duh.
@@markgordon4368 😂😂😂😂😂
many providers will not write real hair on their labels. because most of the time the extensions are sourced from asia, and thus when imported to europe they will have to go through customs. and real hair has a higher customs tariff percentage than synthetic hair. so many providers will try their hardest to make real hair seem like synthetic hair - we've even had one company hand-write little cards they included in their packages saying "hi, we wrote synthetic hair so you don't have to pay such high customs fees, but please be assured that it's real hair as advertised" (yes, it was rather awkward for all involved).
Cool! That's good to know. However, I tried burning it and it sort of melted, which indicated to me that it is synthetic.
Never tried burning horse hair, but human hair also kind of melt when they burn
best is to smell it when you burn it - real hair smells like, well, burned hair. but synthetic hair has very artificial plastic smell
But there is a whole cat full of hair sitting in the window...
Could be dangerous to harvest from though :D
I guessing that's why it was looking for a way to escape by the end of the video.
Не, какво ще кажете за вас?
Cât hair is too soft, most often too short and doesn't stay aligned properly.
"A schnip" lol.
I love that he sounds like a character from "What we do in the shadows" .
Looking at his woodshop is fun.
Even if they're not perfect, they're yours and individual. And at the end of the day, you made them work so job done 😉
Was good to see you at Maker's Central!
Absolutely! You tend to work very differently when you use your own handmade tools.
Uri is a Japanese word, it means melon: 瓜! You could also go for 鵜鯉 (u and ri), meaning cormorant and koi carp, which is not ideal, but all things considered, close enough to pigeon and fish!!
Otherwise for a first try you did fine! (the "legs" are actually the squished version of 火, which means fire - why do so many animals have fire in their name, you ask? Well, why not.)
Maybe they have fire in their name, because we eat them and you use fire most of the time before you eat something.
Its appearance in animals is unrelated to fire:
"A graphically similar but etymologically unrelated bottom component is used in several animal characters, notably 馬 (“horse”), 鳥 (“bird”), 烏 (“black, dark (was crow)”), 魚 (“fish”), indicating variously legs, claws, or fin."
But it's correct that the radicalized 火 can be simplified to either 大, ⺣, or 一.
I think breaking down his name into it's meaning and then working from there is a better method. Uri means light in Hebrew, and Tuchman is a German occupational name meaning textile merchant. I think the most appropriate translation would be 布屋 光, or Nunoya Hikari.
Most people with foreign names should probably just use katakana however. It's not so messy or confusing as transliterating two words of different origins from cultures that have different naming conventions than the target language.
Wait, they named a melon after a sword?
Julien and bu tre, thank you for the insightful notes!
My friend makes and sells her own paints, collecting plants, flowers and insects from nature. I'm always amazed at the transformation of color from the plant to the paint as it gets dried and ground and oil is blended in. The blues especially. Your Japanese brushes look great.
(...) "i decided i will take a shnip of my own hair" - Perfection ! love your work, your accent and your camera presence!
You should make some new scissors next. The one you own currently seemed to have some trouble with that bag
Haha did you not see the scissors build?
Tom Cooney ah yes, my mistake lol
Amazing. A true renaissance man. Keep inspiring the world with your projects.
“Anyway...let’s calm down” 😭😭😭 (made me laugh within less than 2 minutes) *brilliant*
I like that each video is literally about something different even if you're not quite sure what you're supposed to do. Makes it more interesting I think 😁
"Ah, I get it. I don't get it."
Your name (Uri) can be transliterated into kanji, either as 宇梨, 宇理, 宇里, or 瓜. (wouldn't recommend the last one lol) you can also just write it in just hiragana or katakana (うり, ウリ)
The kanji was decent enough for first time, though 鳥 got a bit squashed to the side.
edit: some more possible kanji for your name, pretty much all of them are using their on'yomi pronunciation.
U: 宇 羽 優 雨
Ri: 梨 理 里 鯉 離
Very cool! Do they carry any meanings?
@@urituchmanpigeon of course, you can search them in jisho.org and the you can see the meaning on the right side of the screen.
for example 羽鯉 can be read as "winged/feathered koi". generally speaking, kanji always carry meaning where as hiragana and katakana don't carry meaning, just pronunciation.
Palette knives in your style would be awesome !!!
That'd be cool
Great work as usual Uri!! Using tools that you made yourself is really satisfying. Can’t wait for the next video. How did you start being such a great inventor? Could you do a Q and A video or maybe on how you learned so much. It would be very interesting. Thank you fir all your work a teaching. I want to build my own paint brushes now.
I would like to see another painting video. I really like your style and techniques.
You really surprised me in every video you make. Definitely you are a genius in ART matters. Great video as always 👍👍.
Awesome work!
You are a real painter because you do all things from zero to hundred. I enjoyed.
This dude is the reborn Da Vinci .... there is absolutely nothing he cant do ....
I love this channel 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Oh dear.....Love this guy already ! Well done Uri !
Can’t wait to see the next set of videos!
Great job! Your videos are so fun to watch!
I feel like we both have the same aspirations in life Uri. Every time you post a new video, it's a project I've already tackled or one that I'm wanting to do. Good luck on the pigments. I'd suggest lapis and other natural stones, they make the most beautiful pigments in my opinion. Keep up the good work man. I'ma big fan of this channel
I've always wanted to know how to make paint brushes. Thank you for your video.
I've seen brushes made in the medieval way, by using feathers and pull strands of that feather through a cut off piece of its tubular shaft.
Saw it on a documentary. Never done it yet, but looked very plausible.
That docu could be "24 hours in the past" the monastery one, from Ruth Goodman and her team
Canada goose feathers are great ink holders and you get a variety of line thickness with pressure, I do this with my grade 8 students.
When you said all you had on hand was a snip of your own I died laughing 🤣🤣 dude seriously you are full of comedy and knowledge. I can picture di vinvci being the exact same. I LOVE your content. Although I do none of this I'm just here for entertainment.
Excellent video uri, always a pleasure watching you craft some amazing instruments. I honestly thought at first you would be using your own hair anyways.
”Urushi Brush !!" (⌒∇⌒) You made it yourself! so good! I'm Japanese.Your "Kanji" is very nice!
All I can read on your name is Sán, hehe Konichiwa
Love this Uri! Your hair brushes would be excellent for watercolors or painting on silk! Amazing video and so are YOU!
Could you show how to make a porcelain pallete? i don't know if you work with watercolor, but porcelain is perfect type of surface to mix your colors into and if it has those pans/wells you can just let the paint there and already mixed tube paint and etc, and i would love to see someone making just to know what i should watch out for, like how thick and thin it should be, how to glaze it and fire it, all that stuff.
Those brushes are lovely.
Nice video and a great inspiration to build more tools.
I love your videos, painting, drawing and all that would be great.
Great video mr Tuchman. Thanks.
Dude always enjoy your videos keep um coming
One time i was babysitting some kids and brought my acrylic paints to paint their faces but i forgot a paint brush so i just cut off a piece of my own hair and taped it to a pencil with electric tape. it worked surprisingly well.... This is a liiiiiitttttle more involved.
When trimming my squirrel hair pinstripe brushes I would use liquid dish soap really heavy on the hair and let it dry over night. The next day I could trim it the way I wanted and then just wash it out. I don't know if that is the proper way, but it worked for me. Great video. I may need to make some brushes myself in the future.
I haven't been here in a while and I just realized that I missed you so much
I'm new here and he is unique in his cleanliness and positive outlook.
You’re such an ARTIST 🤩
Such a talented man
I also have a shop and I paint. I thought about making brushes and now I will TY.
You deserve all the followers. Lots more to come I think.
[Subscribed] Very interesting video. To really appreciate/understand tools and what we expect from them, there can be no better way than to try making them. I think this series will be most inciteful.
Between you, Paul Sellers, The Crafsman (and maybe Bobby Skullface), I’m all set! Great video again :)
Everyone out here speaking on the brushes when I’m interested in that nice gold saw
That painting was beautiful.
Another nice video. Thanks.
Nice video, You always suprise me.... painting of the tomato is well done. Like it. greetz
amazing and informative video! Thanks well made.
I've never seen Urushi brushes before... Now I want one.
Hi Uri, great video and I also enjoyed your engraving at Maker Central.
Love your work
Really enjoy your videos thanks.
you are very multy talented! That was a nice idea!!!!
Fishing fly tiers use a tool called a "hair stacker". It's just a tube that fits into another blind tube. You just stuff the hair in, bump it a few times on a table, and all the points of your hair are lined up. You can pull the open tube out, grab your hair in a clump, and brush out all the short ones. Just do a youtube search on "fly tying hair stacking" and you'll see how it works.
I made some brushes with different kind of hair, some harder in the middle, softer on the outside for ex. They were mostly from old brushes, that I didn't care destroying. That's a fun thing to do, and can open unexpected opportunities once you paint!
I often use shellac to train or retrain my brushes. Great video!
Look forward to the paint and canvas projects. A nice watercolor paper would be an interesting project too although it might be a bit tough to accomplish all that's needed for that kind of specialty paper. Inks would be a neat project too especially printing inks that can be expensive. I can't think of anything else on my wish list... Incidentally, I tried silk screen printing using hand crafted frames and screen made from inexpensive shear curtains bought at a dollar store. The thread count is not as tight as my normal commercial screens but it worked beautifully and they cleaned up easily too. Best wishes and love your projects!
As a vice president in charge of quality control and training, I have seen the start to finish of hundreds and hundreds of brushes. We used Winsor Newton camel hair 000's to retouch negatives. We used hairspray on the ones that needed fixed then using a 20x magnifier trimmed the hair with superfine cuticle scissors. After their trim we washed them and used a swirl motion to bring the tip under control and then froze them. We would trade for the more used ones because the retouching could be a spot as large as a poppy seed and as small as a piece of dust. The older the brush the sparcer the hair. This technique was practiced over the span of 62 years.
I watched for the brushes. Got the bonus of a cat at the end.
I love your wood working skills. I think I might just make my next set of brushes now.❤️
thank you URI
LOve seeing you make things
Nice video. I'm trying to teach myself urushi lacquer painting. So I thought this would be interesting, and it was.
The only missed opportunity was that a hake brush can have hair, usually human hair, go the full length of the brush, so that when the bristles get worn, they can just trim the wood back as in a pencil and re-shape the hair and you have a new brush again.
But still an awesome video. 👍😊
Oh my ,i had to subscribe. I wish I'd seen your video before i purchased my 12 yr old an ISABEY brush for $118 she will now be making brushes, Thanks to your video❤❤. You have sure a vibrant personality
i love the way you say urushi
Make an easel with the metal etching and some mechanical doodad/apparatus . And that would tie it all together for you art and engraving plus woodworking... not a bad idea for you Uri
Awesome job and that cat walking behind you might be a thought of make a brush lol.
Always interesting!!
sitting comfortably ready for the next episode ... cool
Great Cressman ship with entertaining content as always!
I’ll ask for pigeon-fish brushes at my local art supply store!
When he makes something he makes the whole thing.
very interesting experiment.
this is really useful for when you want a specific kind of brush for a project but it’s either too expensive for comfort or hard to come by
It's brilliant
Great video, Uri. Very entertaining, and interesting to see how to make things that you tend to take for granted. I wonder whether going to a local stable and ask them whether you can have some hair would work - although I have no idea whether it would work with any horse hair. The amount you can brush out of it as the winter fur goes is enormous, bur probably not high art supply material. Thanks for sharing!
This guy is the most affable genius on RUclips.
that was great!
Beautiful
Genius!
I agree with you that it is not so much of the economic side of making the brushes (far, far cheaper to buy ready made brushes); rather, it is the ability to customise things to your specific requirements. Mostly, I just improve on things bought from the shops.
Case in point, I am painting one side of the house but during the Covid-19 lockdown in NZ (late Mar ~ late April 2020), I cannot go out to buy a cutting brush for trims, etc.
Great video - thank you.
great you did good job sir
Do not spoil the intro it is beautiful as it is 0:12
Keep up the good work 😃
Many Hanzi are descended from pictographs that gradually became abstracted and standardized into components called radicals. The radical "灬" is a simplification of a fish's fins, horse's legs, ect and also can mean the character is related to fire or merely a phonetic add-on
Now you need a wild boar. I’ve tried to find something comparable to boars hair for oil but never have. Now pinstripe brushes can do. Cool stuff bud.
Leonardo DaVinci here, painting, using tools, engineering, using them thingamagiks. Great videos
Aaah I get it... I don't get it!
Haha great my friend. :D . Insta liked the video even before watching.
I can see re-cycling commercial brush handles and re-making them with hair of your own choice when a commercial brush wears out/gets damaged. Cuts the cost of a custom brush.
came here for the tutorial, stayed bc damn you got good vibes,,,
What I want to know is what his wife thinks of Uri having his studio shop in what looks like what used to be their dining room. 🤣
"Ahhh ahhhh i get it
I don't get it"
When making your own blue paint the best but most expensive pigment to use is lapis lazuli dust, which is what the standard was before synthetic pigments came about.
You need to build a latch for that cabinet lol