Thread: 5-Minute Bamboo Brush Handle

That is very nice!
No uber exotic wood just a good looking brush!
I would take that over a $60.00 zebrawood custom turned brush any day of the week, excellent work!

It looks like Gilligan finally let the Tiki Torches go out! (very obscure reference)

You have proven that we all just overthink and overproduce everything - it is inspired! Quite nice.

I love bamboo so I love your brush but did you seal it in side & out.? Have you considered bamboos affinity for water ?

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I love bamboo so I love your brush but did you seal it in side & out.? Have you considered bamboos affinity for water ?

I wiped on a few coats of spar varnish (inside & out) but I don't know what bamboo needs in the long run. This was just a test piece, really, since there's another six feet or so standing up in the corner.

I'd say you got your bases covered

+1 on that elegant, simple, down right sexy. Wanna make me one?

Your work inspired me to try to make a bamboo handle for my Ever-Ready SE razor, from a piece of bamboo garden stake. The idea was to epoxy in a bolt or piece of threaded rod so I could screw it into the razor head. I took the handles from 3 razors to Home Depot and fit them into their "Thread Guage" (sized nuts fitted into a plastic board), got brass nuts and threadede them onto the tree handles, then got the matching brass bolts, and just to double check, threaded the appropriate nut onto each bolt. But NOT ONE OF THE BOLTS WOULD SCREW INTO THE RAZOR HEAD! I guess the brass nuts were just a tad loose, but would still mate with the handle thread, but the razor head "nut"s (threaded hole) were just a tad too tight or small to accept the bolts.

Maybe not an epic fail, but a fail nevertheless. Next time I take the entire razor and try to find a standard bolt to fit the razor head.

If I can get the right bolts, I'll have to strip the chrome off the razors and replate the brass. Brass and bamboo should work together, but I don't think bamboo and chrome will look so good together.

Simple, elegant, beautiful! I love it.

John

Originally Posted by donjcschilde

MacGuyver resourcefullness, Picaso artfullness, Bob Villa fit and finish. I think you've made a masterpiece! Well done Sir!

FIFY.

good stuff! how much were the badger knots at LV?

Originally Posted by 96firephoenix

FIFY.

good stuff! how much were the badger knots at LV?

$9.50 for one. Razor Handle and Brush Kits - Lee Valley Tools