Choosing The Proper Brush
There are two things you need to know in order to select the right paintbrush for the job: 1) the surface you’ll be painting and 2) the type of paint you’ll be using.

Wooster paintbrushes are made in a wide variety of sizes, from the smallest 1/2-inch to the largest 6-inch. You’ll probably need two brushes for every project—a small one for painting trim or detailed areas and a large one for covering surfaces quickly. Just choose the sizes you feel comfortable using, that will "fit" your surface nicely.

When it comes to paintbrushes, paint is divided into two categories. In the first category you have water-based coatings. The paint can label will have one or a combination of these words: latex, acrylic, waterborne, or water-based. The second category is oil-based coatings. Look for these words on the can label: alkyd, oil, solvent-borne, or oil-based.

For water-based coatings, choose a nylon/polyester (synthetic) brush. Nylon/polyester brushes are durable, so they’re great for painting rough surfaces, they maintain their stiffness in humid painting conditions, and they clean the easiest.

However, for oil-based coatings your best choice is a natural bristle brush like the Yachtsman®, White Fong™, or Fong™ from Wooster. Natural bristle has unique properties that are difficult to duplicate synthetically. Bristle comes in many different lengths and thicknesses to produce a brush that holds a lot of paint. Bristle also has the softest tips for the smoothest finish.