The brush size is an imperative thought when looking for the ideal painting brush. Brushes are grouped by their manufacturers utilizing a standard numbering framework, you can discover the size demonstrated by a number imprinted on the handle. The littlest brushes begin at 0000, at that point continue to 1, 2, and on up to 24 or much bigger.

As we all know, brushes come in a variety of materials, shapes, and sizes.Most brushes have a handle, a ferrule (the object holding the bristles), andbristles made of synthetic or natural materials.The bristles have a length (measured from the ferrule to the tip) and a width(measured where the bristles exit the ferrule),but what's the brush number?This article describes the brush size numbering system that oftenappears on the handle of paint brushes.

Basically, the numbering system is meant to order the sizes of brushes.The system begins at 0. Larger brushes are signified by increasing wholenumber values. Smaller brushes are signified by increasing the number ofzeros. The smaller sizes are often abbreviated with a slash notationending in '/0' and having a whole number for the number of zeros.Hence, the following two ordered ranges are equivalent:

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3. Its versatile range of paint by number brush types is guaranteed to get any job done, while the fine tips are excellent for micro details in watercolors, oil, acrylics, enamel, and hobby paints. The set contains 15 brushes: Five liners in sizes 4/0, 3/0, 2/0, 0, and 1, five rounds in sizes 4/0, 3/0, 2/0, 0, and 1, three flats in sizes 2/0, 0.

Winsor & Newton brushes. From left to right: 000, 0, 2, mini 2, mini 0, mini 00.

This photo shows a series of brushes from manufacturer Winsor & Newton(warning, this site requires the Flash 5 plugin).To the left of the U.S. penny are round sizes 000, 0, and 2.To the right is their 'round miniature' brush sizes 2, 0, and 00.As you can see, similarly numbered brushes are about the same size atthe ferrule, but even two round shapes can have different bristle sizes.There is no standard measurement system that the industry must follow.The comparison of round brushes to other shapes,and the introduction of metric and imperial measurementsmakes these numbers inconsistent between manufacturers.One site states that these measurements are roughly 1/32 of aninch, another site states 1/6 of an inch, and another states 1 mm.This table gives a common summary

Size	Round Size	Flat/Other Size
5/0	<<1/64'	<<1/64'
4/0	<1/64'	<1/64'
3/0	1/64'	1/64'
2/0	<1/32'	<1/32'
0	1/32'	1/32'
1	3/64' 2.7mm	2/32' 5.3mm
2	2/32' 3.1mm	3/32' 6mm
3	5/64' 4.2mm	4/32' 6.5mm
4	3/32' 5.5mm	5/32' 9.2mm
5	7/64' 6.3mm	11/64' 10.1mm
6	4/32' 7mm	6/32' 11mm

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Most miniature painters use a variety of brushes.The size of the brush generally determines how much paint you can loadand carry to your miniature, and how much paint is applied tothe miniature - the width and rate of paint application.For 15 and 28 mm miniatures, the brush sizes 000 through 2 are mostlikely the sizes you will use, with perhaps one or two other sizes forpriming and dry brushing and top coating.Be aware that the brush size notation is arcane and inconsistentfrom manufacturer to manufacturer.

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