Dave K Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 I am looking for a spray gun that can handle commercial glaze with out a lot of thinning. I am using a few older automotive spray guns, gravity feed and siphon, but I have to thin the glaze quite a bit and the results are not always good and the clean up is a mess. Has any one used a K-grip siphon spray gun? I like that it has available jars with lids to store glaze and makes it easy to change glazes during a spraying. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayjay Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Checking on *google images*, the K-grip looks exactly the same as a Critter spray gun, I've often seen the Critter mentioned as the tool of choice for spraying glazes. (I'd probably buy one myself if it was available in the UK). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 eze sprayer has worked for me for many years. the only problem is the bottles. i put my thumb through one last week. granted it is over ten years old and plastic but it was not a good one from the beginning. have about 35 of them, a few are perfect. the good part is that the actual spray part can be changed to go on any other top you select so if you can find good bottles, fit the eze onto one lid and you have it made. just spray water out of the cleanup bucket, swish a brush around the inside of the lid and it is clean. NO TAKING APART A HUNDRED TINY PIECES. AND YES, the glaze should be thick to spray it. some of my glazes hardly pour out of the bottle when turned over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick White Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 oldlady, can you tell me if your eze sprayer bottles (and sprayer itself) have the same thread as a standard mason canning jar? That's one thing I like about my Critter guns. The bottle is a standard mason canning jar, so I can get a carton of a dozen jars at the grocery store and keep my various glazes in them, ready to go. I also mix my specialty small-batch glazes in mason canning jars because the threads on the base/pitcher of either Hamilton Beach or Oster blenders is the same. (But not Waring.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 if it were that simple, i would have changed mine. the size of the opening is unlike any i have found on any other bottle. the problem with them is that the manufacturer somehow has more room in the lid than the bottle has threads. doesn't close properly, it is like the neck of the bottle has been squashed into the bottle too deeply for the lid to fit. some are even squarish, not round. and the bottles are $5 each! they don't fit and are costly. shaking the bottle of glaze can result in a splash of glaze all over the room from the lid. truly stupid. i got the kind of bottles shown in john britts studio. a friend put the spray assembly into a lid that fits that quart bottle and added a length of tubing to reach the bottom of the quart size bottle. so i have 2 sprayers, one works with the pint bottles supplied by Eze and the other works with 12 of the quart bottles i got from a supplier in florida. they are a little heavy if i fill them but the sprayer works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 I like the Eze spray too. I have 2 and they have lasted more than a decade, maybe 2. . I think the Clay Business at Archie Bray still handles them. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 I do not own either of these guns but with the new hipster craze of putting all your food in mason jars and caring them with you and having a spray gun that excepts mason jars would be a real benefit. At last weeks art show a customer had a large mason jar in her purse with her soup in it. Now one could spray whatever they have on them like ice tea or hot soup with their critter sprayer.Could be a new craze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 mark, are you saying you could put soup in and on your soup bowl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 I have a critter spray gun that I am crazy about especially that a mason jar fits it. I am more comfortable with the plastic jar because I am somewhat of a klutz. I have used a HVLP on a large 2ft. pot and it worked well for that, it sprayed a massive amount of glaze. The critter would have taken me for ever to get enough glaze on it. Potter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 I have about 5 plastic jars for my eze spayer. They are more than enough for when I am glazing. I prefer to stay away from glass jars in the studio. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 mark, are you saying you could put soup in and on your soup bowl? One stop shop-soup bowl with soup as the glaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChenowethArts Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 I'm pretty sure the Eze sprayer is made in Shelbyville, TN (not far from Nashville) by a company called Chick Tools. Here is their web site: http://www.chicktool.com/ I have ordered directly from them before, but I don't see an online form any more. They are pretty quick to respond to emails, however: chicktool@charter.net Chick Tool Company2424 Fairfield PikeShelbyville, Tennessee 37160Telephone: (931) 389-9141 Fax: (931) 389-6573 -Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rae Reich Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 There are 8 oz plastic storage jars made by Oster for their blender. Square-based, they accept Mason jar lids and are very sturdy. On Amazon for $6-7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave K Posted October 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 With the EZE spray gun is the spray pattern adjustable? Will it spray most glazes without thinning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChenowethArts Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 With the EZE spray gun is the spray pattern adjustable? Will it spray most glazes without thinning? Dave, if the glaze is somewhere between the thickness of milk and cream, then I would say that it should spray just fine. As for adjusting the spray pattern, you won't have the control that you'd experience with an airbrush, but the spray trigger can manually adjust the flow, and distance from the spray surface can shrink/enlarge the pattern. There isn't a 'flat spray' pattern that you can get with an automotive-type sprayer. For an inexpensive option, I'd suggest that you'd get a lot of mileage from this simple spray set up. -Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave K Posted October 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 I am going to go with the EZE spray gun. Thanks to everyone for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 if you don't like what comes out of the sprayer, a simple emery board or sandpaper will adjust the brass nozzle to be larger. do not do this on the first day, learn the sprayer first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnolia Mud Research Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 Jars that come with peanut butter or mayonnaise often will substitute for Mason jars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted March 21, 2017 Report Share Posted March 21, 2017 Jars that come with peanut butter or mayonnaise often will substitute for Mason jars.Peanut butter seems to clog my spray gunsI will try to thin it with mayonnaise next time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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