BTW, if you ever have a need for high quality forstners, Lee Valley is your friend. :)
IMHO a vise or a third hand would be very helpful in doing that you describe... what is the handle made of?
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My new knots arrived today :y
These are excellent knots and even though they are synthetic, I am really pleased.
I have had a couple of cheap synthetic brushes and they were disappointing so I am really pleased at he quality of these.
One thing I now know for sure, the original knot in this brush was 100% badger in the description as you all know.
Now I have a synthetic faux silver tip knot to compare the original one with, the original is definitely not real badger. It looks exactly the same as my new synth except lower quality.
I haven't had the chance to get a glue gun so I put the new knot in temporarily with a little spot of silicon and tried it out this afternoon.
That brush is excellent now, no adjustments needed.
Now what am I going to do with my forstners set, stupid knot, it wasn't supposed to fit that well straight out of the box.