Anyone have any experience, good or bad, with one of these brushes?
PC Woodcraft and Pens - 28mm Silvertip Badger Brushes
I guess I'm a bit wary as this seems a bit cheap for a custom/handmade silvertip brush.
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Anyone have any experience, good or bad, with one of these brushes?
PC Woodcraft and Pens - 28mm Silvertip Badger Brushes
I guess I'm a bit wary as this seems a bit cheap for a custom/handmade silvertip brush.
Hello Jonathan,
I purchased one of those brushes, a few months back. The burl handles are beautiful...gorgeous, in fact, imo. However, the brush is huge...i mean huge! Be prepared for that...and use a large mug or bowl. Also, it holds so much lather, i feel like i am kissing a mop.
The silvertip knots, do lose a bit of hair initially and i wasnt too happy with that, but the loss seems to have stopped.
Bottom line: I use it occasionally, for kicks, but primarily use my smaller brushes the most.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/brush...ush-he-he.html
Many thanks,
Mac
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Originally Posted by Jonathan
Don't be put off by low prices! Quality is what matters. But the only way to judge that is to take the plunge after reading any reviews you can find.
I bought one silver tip from them few months back. It's highly polished and absolutely gorgeous. There were some bristle losses at the beginning, as mentioned above, but it stopped after some uses. The brush size may be subjective; I certainly have no problem with mine. Get it if you want an unique and high quality brush.
Does anyone has bought a Pure Badger knot from this brand ?
I've dealt with Pat (PC WoodCraft) before. I Purchased Horse hair and Boar hair knots from him. The knots are good. And personally think his work looks great! As for the knots losing some hairs, I don't care who is selling them some hairs will shed. If you're loosing 10 a shave I think I would be concerned, but a hair here and there I wouldn't worry about.
How about the backbone ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trimmy72
Your knot were tough or very soft ?
The Boar is typical boar plenty of back bone. The horse, well lets say once the smell washes out it's a bit floppy. I think maybe if you set the loft lower it would work better. One person though thought they were a bit stiff, but everyone has an opinion. I have two horse and boar knots I haven't made brush handles for. I will set the loft say closer to 50mm for the horse (I made one for myself and the loft is at 55mm) needs to be set lower.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doryferon
The horse hair is soft to me, boar is stiff
Makes not a hill of beans in the knot,Is all about how the loft is set.
Some knots work very well as they are out of the boxQuote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
Some knots with the tendency to "floppy" must be tossed in the handle a little bit more to work.
Sometimes work but you have to do work with tools,if you haven't them or the experience to do it all you have is a floppy knot ONLY for painting movings,not adequate for swirling.
All you can do is order them. Here's an idea, if you have the tools to do it. Take a block drill holes in it to fit the knots at varied depths. I think this would allow you to figure out or at least help figure out what you might prefer the loft set at.
http://i59.tinypic.com/2i7sprn.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Trimmy72
I have 3 of that store
24mm base knot and 67mm total height.
Theoretically it should be work as is and not need a "toss" to prevent over-blooming,am i right ?
It will bloom how it blooms. The only thing that will change it, is the loft you set it at. I suggest you do what Trimmy has suggested above. If you want my advice, I wouldn't set the loft above 54mm. Somewhere around 48-50mm is my suggestion. Loft is a very personal thing. Some like it short, some like it long. If you want it floppy, set it higher. If you like firm with backbone, set it lower.
Side note, When boring the hole for the knots you can also flare the hole bigger towards the top. This is another factor which will make the bloom bigger. You can create a big bloom to a shorter loft. But that's opening up a whole other can of worms.
That is a very strange looking knot,Not dissin, JMOQuote:
Originally Posted by Doryferon
67mm is going to be too floppy. Mine if I'm recalling correctly was set at 55mm and is still to floppy (assuming the pic your showing is horse hair knot). I would play around with it, I never did this but it may work....
use a string or a rubber band around the knot and adjust it up and down until you find something that feels right to you. Measure it from the base to the string and that's how deep you want to set the knot in the handle.
We will call this a "knot ring" lol
Bill it's not HMW Badger, it's horse ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
The "knot" is not as refined as TGN knots but they are solid. You don't see the bottom anyway....
Thats a horse Knot? never seen one before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trimmy72
I think inspecting the epoxy base of a well made Knot is very important,I see any hairline fractures in a knot base,they get sent back.
Really, you never seen a horse hair knot?Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
It looks like one to me but Doryferon has not confirmed that.
If I remember I'll take some pic's of what I have from PC WoodCraft (horse and Boar) when I get home tonight. They are ruff around the edges but nothing that would indicate a fracture or hairline cracks.
I made a brush out of a horse knot probably three years ago from PC and it's held up very well, and little shedding
I would never use a horsehair Knot in my handles,I did do one pig tho awhile back:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Trimmy72
Well, each to their own. But some people like that the animal wasn't harmed - so horse hair
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Two left are horse and the other of course is boar.
It's a Pure badger 24mm knotQuote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
You will see latter after my simple test how would look like.
In advance: weird
It was the frizz at the tips that threw me off thinking it was horse hair, my next guess would have been Mixed or pure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doryferon
I put some photos plus text in other thread
I'd like your opinion:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/brush...e-badgers.html
