Ah ah, fun bits as always ... I feel Rosemary’s brushed are too soft for my liking, although I love Broken Toads brushes (which paradoxically are also made by Rosemary&Co) ... either way, Rosemary’s Manufacturing Quality (doubled down by Kris’s Broken Toad additional one) never disappointed me; you can order blindly, especially now that the MkIII make them very mature brushes ! (All the while remaining very affordable) while W&N Q&A goes down the drain each days that pass ... at least for brushes below £100/unit ... All the brushes I tested were disappointing DaVinci Maestro, Squidmar MkI (Manufacured by DaVinci), Artis Opus ... came with serious quality issues, even tho community praise them, so either I’m the unluckiest guys in the world, or quality is not reliable at all ... The one I prefer are BT MkIII, and Rapahel 8404, mostly because I know EXACTLY what I’ll get each time I get some.
I've also heard about quality issues with Artis Opus brushes and I've also heard that they are made by Rosemary & Co too! I bought some red dot spotters from R&C a couple of month's ago but I've not really used them to be able to comment, to be fair I wouldn't know a good brush from a bad one either! I couldn't fault R&C's customer service or their prices 👌🏻 Have a great weekend guys 🔥
@@Carbide-1 thing is, Byron (Artis Opus) and Kris (Broken Toad) used to observe their own QA after the R&C manufacturing one, and this made the delivered product a consistent high quality one. BT continues to do so, but Artis Opus became extremely famous extremely rapidly, due to many hogh profile painter/studios backing and the inevitable increase of production rates to cover demand surge limited the Q&A. They still perform Q&A but mostly when you purchase boxed set, if you buy brushed individually you are very likely to have defects (I order 4 of them individually over the course a full year, 2 had split hair from the get go, one persisted even after baby shampoo care, 1 had bent ferrule (not aligned with handle) and the 4th was a dry brush one. Don’t get me wrong the product in itself is a quality one, but ordering individual brush feel like russian roulettes... with multiple rounds in the barrel.
Good chat about brushes tbh. I've always found R&C to be the cheapest and the most consistent for me. Having bought 3 BT brushes too, they have been excellent for me! W&N really have let the brush drop haven't they... Which sucks frankly!!
Can you please do a video about your hobby setup? Your hobby desk and such
Ah very interesting, anything in particular, but I'm up for it ye
@@minimatterspodcast nothing in particular, just a tour of the space, how you organized things
Ah ah, fun bits as always ...
I feel Rosemary’s brushed are too soft for my liking, although I love Broken Toads brushes (which paradoxically are also made by Rosemary&Co) ... either way, Rosemary’s Manufacturing Quality (doubled down by Kris’s Broken Toad additional one) never disappointed me; you can order blindly, especially now that the MkIII make them very mature brushes ! (All the while remaining very affordable) while W&N Q&A goes down the drain each days that pass ... at least for brushes below £100/unit ...
All the brushes I tested were disappointing DaVinci Maestro, Squidmar MkI (Manufacured by DaVinci), Artis Opus ... came with serious quality issues, even tho community praise them, so either I’m the unluckiest guys in the world, or quality is not reliable at all ...
The one I prefer are BT MkIII, and Rapahel 8404, mostly because I know EXACTLY what I’ll get each time I get some.
I've also heard about quality issues with Artis Opus brushes and I've also heard that they are made by Rosemary & Co too!
I bought some red dot spotters from R&C a couple of month's ago but I've not really used them to be able to comment, to be fair I wouldn't know a good brush from a bad one either! I couldn't fault R&C's customer service or their prices 👌🏻
Have a great weekend guys 🔥
@@Carbide-1 thing is, Byron (Artis Opus) and Kris (Broken Toad) used to observe their own QA after the R&C manufacturing one, and this made the delivered product a consistent high quality one. BT continues to do so, but Artis Opus became extremely famous extremely rapidly, due to many hogh profile painter/studios backing and the inevitable increase of production rates to cover demand surge limited the Q&A.
They still perform Q&A but mostly when you purchase boxed set, if you buy brushed individually you are very likely to have defects (I order 4 of them individually over the course a full year, 2 had split hair from the get go, one persisted even after baby shampoo care, 1 had bent ferrule (not aligned with handle) and the 4th was a dry brush one.
Don’t get me wrong the product in itself is a quality one, but ordering individual brush feel like russian roulettes... with multiple rounds in the barrel.
Good chat about brushes tbh. I've always found R&C to be the cheapest and the most consistent for me. Having bought 3 BT brushes too, they have been excellent for me! W&N really have let the brush drop haven't they... Which sucks frankly!!
Oozing with parody 👌🏻
Honestly it was a bit of a relaxed week. I didn't have time record and I had this one ready to go
Dude, seriously? 13 minutes? You could have made this a three minutes video showcasing everything in the box.
Haha 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely right!! Funny how time flys when you're having fun though!