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08-03-2011, 11:10 PM #1Opto Ergo Sum
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I really like this. I have a few boar knots sitting around waiting for homes, if I happen across some bamboo I might give it a try, hope you don't mind.
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08-04-2011, 02:13 AM #2Member
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Not bad at all.
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08-04-2011, 03:20 AM #3Senior Member
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The simplcity of this is really striking. I like it allot!
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08-05-2011, 11:16 AM #4Senior Member
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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!
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08-05-2011, 11:27 AM #5
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.
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08-06-2011, 02:48 AM #6The Great & Powerful Oz
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I love bamboo so I love your brush but did you seal it in side & out.? Have you considered bamboos affinity for water ?
“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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08-06-2011, 07:30 AM #7"Nah"
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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.
Originally Posted by onimaru55
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08-09-2011, 03:02 AM #8Member
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+1 on that elegant, simple, down right sexy. Wanna make me one?
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08-11-2011, 12:11 AM #9Altvaart
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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.
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08-11-2011, 04:08 PM #10Senior Member
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Simple, elegant, beautiful! I love it.
John
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