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While shopping at Lee Valley for honing tools and scale material I noticed they sold inexpensive badger knots. I had an old table leg all ready to turn into a handle when I went to toss something in a dumpster and found a couple bamboo tiki torches someone had tossed.
Took one home, sawed off a couple inches, used my drill press to spin it so I could sand a taper in the mouth and hot-glued the badger in place.
Presto.
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I like it. I usually don't like the shapes of brushes. But this on speaks to me. I love it.
you sir.. are a bad a$$.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goggles
It's elegant in it's simplicity.
I like it a lot.
James Bond resourcefullness, Picaso artfullness, Bob Villa fit and finish. I think you've made a masterpiece! Well done Sir!
I'm sure the badger who donated the hair would be proud of that.
That applies to the thrifty eco warrior in me.
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.
Not bad at all.
The simplcity of this is really striking. I like it allot!
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 ?
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by onimaru55
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. :beer1:
John
FIFY.Quote:
Originally Posted by donjcschilde
good stuff! how much were the badger knots at LV?
$9.50 for one. Razor Handle and Brush Kits - Lee Valley ToolsQuote:
Originally Posted by 96firephoenix
