Can anyone give me a background on this brush? hair it has and year maybe? I have had it for a while I just wanted to post this after I saw a similar brush in a recent new post here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/brush...ucked-out.html
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Can anyone give me a background on this brush? hair it has and year maybe? I have had it for a while I just wanted to post this after I saw a similar brush in a recent new post here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/brush...ucked-out.html
Ever-ready was just a good basic brush. The ones I've seen seem to go back to the 50s and 60s. Most I've seen have boar hair. Yours looks like badger by coloration but they did dye boar to look like badger and the bristles look more like boar to me than badger but that's just a guess. Handling it should tell you.
I can't help you with the history but I can say those brushes restore nicely. A new knot, a buff on the outside and you'll have a handy brush that'll do the job for years to come. I don't recall if the knot sits on a shelf or not but it's hollow below. You can fill it with epoxy, add some pennies or washers to give it a little heft.
...Ray
No shelf, it's hollow. I just restored a 150, it's a nice classic handle well worth restoring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sando