Where can I get a box of wooden paint stir sticks for relatively cheap?
I'm talking about the ones you get for free at the paint store, but it seems that every time I need one I'm out.
Jason
Where can I get a box of wooden paint stir sticks for relatively cheap?
I'm talking about the ones you get for free at the paint store, but it seems that every time I need one I'm out.
Jason
automotive paint supply store will have them
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I seem to have piles of long, thin strips that I've ripped off edges of boards. They're too narrow to use for anything, so I cut them about a foot long and use them as paint sticks.
Google with "paint stir sticks" yields http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...ct.do?pid=2436
Eleven cents each in quantities of 1000.
I am in the building supply business. If you go into your local hardware, lumberyard and talk to the person in paint, they will get you a box, or as many as you want.
They likely have to pay for them, and will likely charge you for them..
It may be different in the US. I dunno.
We always have extra cases of them around and could easily look up the cost .. they are cheap.
Hello,
If you go to a paint store - and look in the back room - you'll notice a lack of paddles being used.
The two main reasons are:
- Cost
- They shed small particles.
What most good paint store employee's (and ex-employee's such as myself) use is a metal spatula.
They run ~ a buck or two at most stores.
A kitchen supply store will have real heavy duty ones for about 10 times more.
Wooden paddles will put a lot of crud into materials - dust, small splinters, etc.
With a metal spatula, you can easily clean them both prior to use and after use.
Water based just flushes off w/water.
Solvent based just wipes off on the edge of a cardboard box & when it dries, a single edge razor blade strips it clean.
Tip - cut the rounded end of the spatula off square w/some snips. That way you can get into the edge of the round cans and work all the settled material.
Tip 2 - for "5's", go electric.
Last edited by Rich Engelhardt; 05-17-2009 at 7:34 AM.
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Com'on Jason, a block of scrap and five minutes at your new table saw and you could make a years supply. The time you spent running this thread and you could have made a life time supply.
Richard
Richard
When I used Sears paint many years ago they gave out plastic stir sticks. I have been using them off and on for the past 30 or more years. All you have to do is not be lazy , clean them after each use and they will last forever.
David B