It's always super exciting when there is a new graffiti mop or graffiti marker released
to the market and even more so when it is one that has been developed by a
well-established graffiti brand of sorts. And that is exactly the case for the new dang flex mops,
the flex 15 mops, that have just been released to the graffiti world by bombingscience.com!
If you're watching this soon after the dang flex mop's release, there definitely are
still some questions about the quality of these dang flex mops, so that is exactly what we are
here to examine today in a full review and surface tagging test! Today i'll be telling
you everything that there is to know about the dang flex 15 mops and i'll even be giving you a
first hand look at the process that the bombing science team went through to make a best-in-class
two-ounce mop by giving you guys a look at a short interview i did with the infamous Fred,
down at bombingscience.com. And, at the end, after our surface tagging test, where we actually
put these to the test, throw some tags up, i'll be able to tell you guys, in my opinion,
if these ultimately are a buy or not! So if that sounds, good let's get to it.
Now although bombing science is a very well established brand in the graffiti world, it wasn't
until relatively recently that they themselves started producing their own lines of graffiti
products. This mop, the flex 15 dang mop, is the first mop that bombing science themselves have
actually created. So, if you are watching this a good length after these mops have been released,
then that at least says something about how the dang flex mops have been able to stay relevant
over a long period of time. But as of right now we don't know that yet. And either way
today we're gonna find out exactly what the dang flex mop is all about in our surface tagging test,
as we get to know what they write like, how they feel, how squeezable the graffiti mop itself is,
what the nib is like and what the paint formula is like as well. So, if you want to see and know
everything there is to see and know about the flex mops, that's what we're doing right now!
So, these dang flex 15 mops are at least on the surface everything you could want
in a mop. They hold 60ml or roughly 2 ounces of alcohol based flex 15 paint,
and bombing science emphasizes on their site that the formula is highly permanent and
highly opaque. The physical mop itself is that really nice two-ounce mop shape that i personally
really like. They are obviously very similar to the krink k60 two ounce mops. If you want more
information on the k60, check the cards in the corner. And they feel about as squeezable as well,
but our tagging test is really where we will test that out. There is a mixing ball in all
13 of the flex 15 mop colours, as well as the gold and the silver colours that they come in,
and there is a very standard 10mm nib on these mops as well. It's a cotton nib,
similar to a lot of the graffiti mops on the market, and as you can see, they have really stuck
with that sort of retro labeling that they did with the dang low pressure cans as well. The mops
themselves will cost you, at time of recording at least, 7.99 US dollars or $9.19 in Canadian. So,
they're definitely far more affordable than a lot of brands of mops out there and they could have a
lot of value if they do end up performing well today in our tagging test. But i was actually
able to talk to bombing science and get some inside information from Fred down at bombing
science about just how these dang flex mops came into being and the process that they went through
to develop a best-in-class two-ounce graffiti squeeze mop. So, i'll share with you right now
exactly what Fred had to say about the dang mops and then we'll head over to our testing area!
So, i have right here exactly what Fred from bombing science told me about these new dang
flex mops. I asked him a few questions and he gave some pretty detailed responses, so i'll let you in
on exactly what he said right here! The first thing i asked him was 'is there anything about
the development process that people might want to know about how the mops have been tested out and
made?' His response was, 'we focus on the durability of the mop components." So,
i'm guessing he's talking about you know the mop squeezability itself as well as of course the
nib durability. That's the part of a mop that you really do want to be the most durable. And he says
they also focused on the opacity and the quality of the paint which is great to hear because nobody
wants to write with something that brings back those nightmares of trying to write with those
Markwell markers or something like that. Right? He goes on to say, 'the paint has
to be super opaque and colourful yet drippy,' which i think most of the people looking to
buy a graffiti drip mop would most certainly agree with. Maybe let me know in the comments:
is that your sort of main things you're looking for in a paint? What are the things you like best
in a mop? Let me know in the comments? When i asked him specifically about
their main focus when figuring out how to create a mop like this, he said,
'the main focus was releasing a really high quality mop.' They did have it made in the US,
he'd mentioned, and they wanted to provide this at a good price point. He says, 'if you compare, it's
basically 50% less expensive than similar mops on market. This is what Dang is all about, for
the paint and the marker products. We want writers to paint more but not with cheap quality tools.'
So, they really are trying to put their heart and soul into these and get more high quality
tools into writers' hands I believe. And lastly, what i asked him was, 'is there anything specific
you want people to know about the flex mops?' He said, 'it's refillable and really robust. It's
made in the USA and we pay really close attention to the quality. The price is lower but the quality
is on par or better than what currently is available. We are just stepping the game
up.' And i think that is a great final statement there that he had to finish off. So, after that
i'm even more excited to start trying these dang flex mops out! So let's get to that right now!
Welcome back to our testing area everyone. If this is your first time joining us where all
the magic happens, an extra welcome to you. We have i believe 73 other graffiti product reviews
on the channel that you can check out and we got much more. So the dang flex mops;
because of what Fred told us at bombing science about these dang flex mops we're going to be
testing this out on a nice smooth surface, one of the nicest that you'd want to write on with a mop,
and we're going to be looking at some specific elements of these mops that really need to
be tested the most. Since they focused on some stuff specifically according to Fred,
we're gonna be paying attention to three things in particular with regards to the paint formula:
Number one, of course the opacity, especially with the gold and silver; sometimes those
colours can have a little funky opacity. Number two, the colour vibrancy, especially because we
have four different colours we're going to try out here today that bombing science sent over.
And number three, what we like to call here on the channel the 'dripability' of course which
was also sort of referenced by Fred, which really just means the viscosity of course.
We just like to dress words up here because we're fun people or something i don't know.
With regards to the physical mop here i'm gonna do my best to communicate to you guys
the level of control that i feel i have with the mop, compared to some other mops, meaning
how squeezable is this mop, and of course we'll be taking just a brief look at the nib.
How well is the nib holding up? Is it something that's gonna hold up well if you use it properly,
is really what we're looking at. And, at the end, after all that i will be able to tell you guys
if these dang flex mops really are a buy, or if they're one to skip out on, and i'll be able to
tell you hopefully right down to a personal level if there's something you would be interested in
buying or not. So, without further ado let's tag some subscribers names up who've asked me
for hit offs in a video and see what the flex mop is all about! So, we've got a few colours
to test out today. I'm going to do something a little funky start with the gold today.
So,
just look at these drips already! I'm loving this! You can tell already,
without a whole lot of squeeze you can get a hell of a lot of drips.
So, this dang flex mop paint formula; i'll start to tell you about each colour that i tried here
and then i'll tell you about some of the overall sort of stats of it, i guess you could call them.
And, of course, starting with the gold here i was really hesitant about how
the metallic colours were going to hold up, and to my delight i guess the gold held up fairly
well. At first i thought it was just the surface being a little bit iffy, but i think just there's
a bit of consistency issues possibly there because it's one thing when you get some incomplete lines
like this that are streaky in the middle and have hard edges, but it's something totally different
when you're getting the tops or the outside of the lines that are almost
spreading a little bit. The reasoning for that, i could be wrong here, discuss away in the comments,
but i believe that when that happens, and you'll see it much more clearly with the silver,
but when that does happen there is some sort of possibly an issue with the binder a little bit
in the paint. But i'm not certain about that, so i don't want to say it definitively, that that's
what's going on there. I've used a few different golds from different companies and mops and
this is among, you know, i'd say the top half as far as the colour goes and the opacity. Moving on
to the red though. Right away i do have to say this is when i really sort of felt like, 'whoa,
this is a mop that that has some real value to it,' because that red is such a vibrant red and
not only is it a very beautiful vibrant red, but it's also incredibly drippy. This is the kind of
formula that when you combine a nice vibrant colour like that with some really nice drips,
that really gets a lot of people. And i think a lot of people really enjoy that type of tagging
with this type of paint formula. Being that that is one of the things Fred specifically mentioned
at bombing science that they worked on, well two of the things: the vibrancy and the dripability, i
will say again that shows that they really did put a good amount of effort into ensuring the quality
of their product here and i think they are well on their way to developing a very good mop here.
That is a bleed through ink, so don't worry about what's happening there; that does not say anything
about the quality of this paint. That is a very heavy bleed through ink. The silver, to be honest,
i was not impressed with the silver. Even the colour, it's a little more of a grey silver.
That alone is fine, like there's different silvers, but just to me you really saw it,
i did it on a nice clean part of this surface and the drips really give it away...
for me you're getting those drips, you're getting sort of the the bleeding from the edges of those
drips. They're not the nice three-dimensional ones and that's why i mention this stuff all the time,
because that three-dimensionality and sort of the stick-to-it-ness of a formula
shows that the formula is well put together and it can stick to a surface.
The silver i just think needs a bit of work. That's the best way i can put it I think. I would
have expected the gold and silver to act much more similar to each other than they did but.
The first thing i thought about the green is that, 'wow, this again is a very very vibrant vibrant
colour as far as the opacity goes.' Don't worry about any of the the blue dye ink that you're
seeing bleed through it. That is just the nature of that blue dye ink. You can check that video out
about that ink in the corner where the cards are. But yeah, the green itself is incredibly vibrant
and these colours are very vibrant. They have a lot of value to them. The consistency of those
non-metallic colours i'm really enjoying so far. A bit more general talk now just about the mop;
one thing i was hoping for was that it would just sort of be one of those mops that fits
in your hand and sort of collapses into the shape of your hand when you write with it. And you can
see i think it was on the green mop, that did definitely happen. It didn't really re-inflate
with air a little bit, so i enjoy the type of nibs that give you a bit closer to a vacuum
sort of seal, for lack of a better term, on your mops. And one thing about nibs that do that,
those nibs usually contain a thicker weave of cotton or whatever they are made of, and that
bodes well usually for the nibs durability specifically. And with these nibs as well,
one thing you'll notice on a bad nib is that the nib right away when it gets wet,
it'll just sink down and flatten out whereas these ones are not doing that at all. So,
although we aren't testing this on anything close to a rough surface, it is important to
remember that there is more than one way to tell how good your nib is and i at first glance would
think that if you're using this nib properly, it looks like it's going to hold up quite well.
So, we've definitely done quite a bit with these mops now. We've got a good idea of
several aspects of the paint formula as well as the physical mops themselves. That being the case
i do have a couple important things that i do really want to say about these mops themselves
and how to specifically tell for yourself if these are a type of mop that you'd actually
want to use for your individual case! So, stick around and i will tell you exactly
that as well as if ultimately i think these are a buy or a mop to avoid!
Okay, so how do you know if this mop is going to be one that you'll actually like, because paint
formulae are very different, characteristics of them and traits of them are all very different.
Well, i actually crunched quite a few numbers here for you to give you an exact answer
for if this is a mop that you should be buying or not. I have some qualitative ways which i'll tell
you right now as well and the main one that i can think of to say, 'well this might not be for you,'
is just if you're the type of person that just loves a thick thick formula that's closer to like
some of the grog paint formulae, like the full meta,l or if you really sort of like the krink
formula than this might not be for you. But that's if you just have your heart set on
just having a nice thick formula. Things that this formula has going for it: it's very very drippy,
the colours are vibrant. I actually tested it out myself just right now, this was done with a krink
k60 and you can't really pick out much different at all in terms of the colour values there, or
the vibrancy at least. So, you know it is right up there with some of the top brands in terms
of vibrancy specifically. Opacity, nothing to be concerned about there. There's no technical
formulaic reasons why anyone should not want to buy this formula, other than the silver i would
say tentatively, and possibly the gold. But i'm not really telling you who this mop is actually
for. Well, it's for two kinds of people in particular. Number one, those of you who are the
drip heads! You're gonna love it! I promise you that. The second type of graffiti writer or artist
who is going to like this is sort of the money conscious writers out there. A lot of the more
money conscious writers you have to understand are doing a lot of tags, like a high volume of
tags using a lot of paint. They can really benefit from saving a dollar here and there when they buy
refills or mops because it is such a high quantity that they buy. And just to make you consider
buying this mop, if you are in one of those two categories, here's the numbers i crunched for you
and i'll put a nice chart on screen or something to that effect that shows this, but Fred did say
that these were 50% cheaper than a lot of the competition. I'm sure they have their numbers,
but here's what I ran. The dang mops in USD are roughly eight bucks. I found the mops of each of
the major brands that bombing science also sells that have about the same amount of paint and are
close to the same style of mop, and compared their prices. For example, the krink k60 here, almost an
identical mop, you're gonna pay roughly 16 bucks for it which is twice as much. So, it's a hundred
percent cheaper than a krink mop here. Your second one we compared it to here, the molotow dripstick
860 ds, almost the same amount of paint. You're going to be out about 13 US dollars for that,
which makes the dang mops roughly 40% cheaper than a molotow mop. Next the otr004 was the one that
held about the same amount of paint and has a nib size close to the same as this that one. You'll
save about 20% buying the dang instead. The grog 10 fmp is the closest to this i would say, and the
grog will be about the same price as one of these dang flex mops. So, really it has an edge on just
about every mop of the major brands that is on the graffiti market, and i would definitely say these
are a BUY in my book, as an overall statement. But, if any of you guys have tried this mop out,
please leave your comments below and let everyone else know your experiences! Do you have friends
that have tried it? Are you looking to try it? The more knowledge we can share together in the
comments, the better off we all are. If you do want to know more of the backstory about how i got
to review these and a bit more about what is to come on the channel still, i'd recommend checking
out the video on screen right now. It'll tell you a bit about the future of what's going on,
in the near future that is, on the channel. I hope to see you over there very soon. Something else
you might want to check out are the Tags, Throws N Pieces tees and sweaters I have. First link in
the description for those. So, i hope to see you in that video very soon. Until my next one, peace!