Keeling Round 4
Synthetic sable, 4 mm head, holds a point wet
$17.00
USDStandard shipping $8.00, free over $75. Arrives in 3–6 business days. 30-day returns.
A soft round for thin colour and for anything that has to stay controlled. The filament is a tapered polyester — each strand is thicker at the belly and drawn fine at the tip, which is how a synthetic gets a natural hair's point and its snap back.
Where it differs honestly from natural sable is capacity. It holds less and releases it faster, so a long wash will run out on you sooner than the equivalent natural round. In exchange it is unaffected by the solvents that eat natural hair over a few years, and it costs a fifth as much.
The specification
Everything we know about this item, stated plainly. The same record is printed on the card in the box.
- Composition
- Tapered polyester filament, seamless nickel-plated brass ferrule, double-crimped, unlacquered turned ash handle.
- Dimensions
- Head 4 mm at the ferrule × 17 mm out; 283 mm overall
- Weight
- 11 g
- Finish & variation
- Soft with a firm spring; holds a fine point when wet and relaxes when dry. Filament is uniformly pale amber with no batch variation.
- Made
- Heads set and shaped in Bavaria, Germany, in a workshop that has made artists' brushes for four decades. Handles turned from ash in Arizona and assembled here.
Care
- Rinse in warm water while you work; wash with plain soap at the end of a session.
- Reshape the point while wet and let it dry flat or head-down.
- Solvent-safe, but wash it out afterwards rather than letting it dry loaded.
Cautions
- Not for standing in water or solvent, for the same reason as natural hair — the crimp swells and the head splays.
- Not for heavy body colour: the filament carries noticeably less than hog bristle and will run out mid-stroke.
- Not for heat. The filament is a polyester and it will deform against a hot surface or a radiator.
Shipping
$8.00 standard, free over $75. 3–6 business days. Full policy
30 DAYS
Returns
Unused and in original packaging. Refunded within 5 business days of reaching us. Full policy
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