> Around here, they are the foam brushes and they are regularly, $.39 ea for
> 1" and $.45 for 1 1/2 and $.49 for 2"

> If you are talking about the cheap bristle brushes, they are horrible to
> use for painting, varnish or epoxy, they lose bristles all over the place.
> Foam brushes are 10/ 1 better.

I like the cheap bristle brushes for applying thickened epoxy, especially to wood that may be a bit rough. I know what you mean, though, about losing bristles on a finished surface...uggh!

I use the bristle brushes when applying silica-thickened epoxy to the strips I use to laminate my paddle shafts. Since the insides of these strips don't show, I leave the saw-cut roughness. They don't seem to snag as badly as foam ones do on little splinters of wood. Since the glue joint will be covered by both pieces of wood on either side, a couple bristles left in the joint don't matter all that much.

Shawn