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#25 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 12:55:19 pm
I've found that the wood brushes that I have tried, Moon, Black Diamond don't brush the chalk off as well as the plastic Lapis brushes.

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#26 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 01:15:32 pm
Lapis plastic brushes £3.99 @ CragX Climbing (Lapis Wooden brushes @ £5.35).  Incurred postage might make the £0.02 saving redundant, although I guess you could bulk buy four to get free postage.

CragX are now doing price match too.

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#27 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 01:24:34 pm
Quote from: Webbo
I've found that the wood brushes that I have tried, Moon, Black Diamond don't brush the chalk off as well as the plastic Lapis brushes

Interesting... Would you put this down the flexibility of the brush? I certainly haven't found this with the wooden Lapis...

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#28 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 02:29:59 pm

Three wooden handled brushes here for a tenner. I've got a set and they're pretty good


http://www.moonclimbing.com/climbing-bouldering-hardgoods/moon-3-brush-set.html

I've got this set aswell and while I'm happy with the 2 smaller brushes the big one is shedding bristles far too quickly...  Happy with its chalk brushing capabilities but it's durability, not so much.

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#29 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 03:53:54 pm
Quote from: Webbo
I've found that the wood brushes that I have tried, Moon, Black Diamond don't brush the chalk off as well as the plastic Lapis brushes

Interesting... Would you put this down the flexibility of the brush? I certainly haven't found this with the wooden Lapis...
I would appear to be lacking in knowledge about the current state of play in brush technology as I wasn't aware of wooden Lapis brushes. :oops:

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#30 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 05:39:40 pm
Have you checked these out?  Not sure about UK availability.

http://wolfpackclimbing.com/?page_id=282

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#31 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 05:55:32 pm
But what do you use to brush holds webbo? Welcome to the future

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#32 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 07:00:10 pm
Behold...


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#33 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 07:56:56 pm
But what do you use to brush holds webbo? Welcome to the future
My teeth.

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#34 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 08:30:23 pm
slightly offtopic but has anyone used a lapis rollybar? seems to be some kind of training kit but can't work out what exactly for.

They're for making it really, really hard to do one single bodyweight pullup. Saves time.

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#35 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
April 29, 2014, 11:30:55 pm
Have you checked these out?  Not sure about UK availability.

http://wolfpackclimbing.com/?page_id=282

Perfect for Lycan aficionados.

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#36 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
January 25, 2023, 06:41:56 pm
Threadcromancy because I've just spotted that Rock And Run have a wide range of good discounts on brushes: https://rockrun.com/collections/brushes


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#38 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
January 25, 2023, 07:52:06 pm
Threadcromancy because I've just spotted that Rock And Run have a wide range of good discounts on brushes: https://rockrun.com/collections/brushes

the rock and run own brand ones are decent and seem to have lasted well

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#39 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
January 26, 2023, 07:12:11 am
I didn't realise that folk actually paid for brushes, my last two Lapis both came free with guidebooks.


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#41 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
January 26, 2023, 08:34:41 am
Quite possibly. I'm still always amazed at the "specialist" brushes getting hawked to climbers.
The moon 3 brush set they used to sell with the bamboo shiv, used to regularly pop up on eBay as an unbranded manicure set directly shipped from China.
Although I rely heavily on my sublime brush for established problems, my old scrubbing brush (nylon and drilled to put on some tat) has seen at least 15 years of loyal service.
Platers brushes ( non metal bristle versions) used in jewelry trade have also been very useful, and probably appropriated and rebranded

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#42 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
January 26, 2023, 09:08:17 am
Agree on that. I've bought the same wooden balls that are used as training aids by drilling a hole in them and branding them for much less than they are sold by climbing companies.

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#43 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
January 26, 2023, 09:33:44 am
Quite possibly. I'm still always amazed at the "specialist" brushes getting hawked to climbers.


Tw*t tax, see also anything high end bicycles. Currently using a Kiwi shoe polishing brush for larger areas, reduced to £1-ish Morrisons. Seems to work.

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#44 Re: Cheap Lapis Brushes
March 05, 2024, 03:49:23 pm
Just adding some praise to Psychi brushes while I remember. Their first iteration had crap glue and the bristles fell out, but latest versions have a high "bristle density", nice stiff bristles and solid handle, and well priced. Not found anything that matches them, and tried a few (avoiding plastic when I can)

 

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