Hi All,
You can make your own for £6.50 with loads of spares.
I have a home made one and have had it wet for up to 3 months before I let it dry out due to lack of use.
This is not my idea but came from Dennis and it works a treat.
From Asda & Tesco you need
1. Home lunch sandwich box £1.25 Asda.
2. Sponge cleaning cloths pack 4 £1.50 Asda
3. 10m grease proof paper £1.25 Asda
4. Kleenex mansize tissues double box 88 sheets £2.50 Tesco
Cut the foam to the size of the box, add a Kleenex sheet on top of the foam, cut to size if necessary.
Add a cut square of grease proof paper and add on top of the tissue. The mansize tissues are the lint free ones.
Only use distilled water otherwise you will have problems and smells.
Simple soak the sponge liberally and replace the top to layers and it's ready to use.
cheers
Richie
I made my own, to start out working with a wet palette. I spent nothing on it, either, not purposely. All the materials were things I had around the house.
A takeout container, a kitchen sponge, and some brown packaging paper for the palette itself.
It worked pretty well, but the plastic eventually weakened, so the lid cracked at the corners, compromising the air- and watertight seal; the sponge got moldy over time, despite rinsing it frequently; and, the packaging paper would wear out relatively frequently, shedding fibers into the paint. Now, I could just continue to make a new one every time, but I had planned on buying a commercially available wet palette, anyway.
The Redgrass product is very good, though I suspect that the Masterson's palette is probably as good. The best feature about the Redgrass palette is the small footprint. It takes up half the space. Their paper is very fine, too.
So, I don't discourage anyone from making his own, but I suspect that most people who do, will do as I did, and eventually get a commercial product. Sometimes we can carry frugality too far.
Prost!
Brad
