I picked up a little tip for myself that I want to share.
Recently I wanted to edge glue two 3/4″ boards, I didn’t want to dirty an acid brush for the little that I had to glue; so, I picked up a piece of scrap wood, about 1/32″ thick taken off the edge of a board. Layed down a string of glue and used the scrap like a flexible spatula and spread the glue in one swipe. Wow, that made applying edge glue easy and clean.
I hope my fellow woodworkers will give this a try; just make sure there is flex in the stick. 
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Glue Up
Sounds like saving money doesn't get old. I mostly use the acid brushed for epoxy and toss - but have washed off yellow glue from acid brushes for a second use.
SA
Sticky fingers
I'll confess to just using fingers and wiping them on the underside of the assembly bench. Also to rubing the boards together and flippling them over. And also to just putting the bead on and clamping if I am reasonabley certain the glue will spread enough. The acid brush does or scrap of wood does come out for dovetails, well depending on the size at least:)
Actually the reason for the (apparent) sloppiness is that the air is so dry here in the winter (when I tend to do most of my woodworking), the glue dries almost instantly after being spread, and there often isn't time to assemble the joint after spreading to correct thickness. Hence the bias to spreading the glue via clamping pressure.
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