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Thread: Amadeus The Brush
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11-08-2013, 09:06 PM #1
Amadeus The Brush
I listen to classical music as I work and really appreciate the strains of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As I was perusing Ebay a while back, I did the big no-no.
I looked at "seller's other items" and snagged a sterling Mozart lapel pin for a reasonable sum. I have a brush I put a medallion on the handle's end so I figured to make a Mozart brush. I had a wooden handle, short and squat, from an old neck duster and had the idea to use a sterling napkin ring as a barrel. I soon found that napkin rings are much larger than the 30mm I required. Madness insued!
I obtained a Sterling napkin ring with an Austrian hallmark of Diana(by way of Israel!) and set about getting it resized. I finally found a jeweler who resized it, cut off the pin and stanchions from the lapel pin and soldered a threaded fitment to the back of it to attatch it to the handle. I was about to paint the handle and proceed and I thought of our own Pixelfixed who joined up and duplicated my stubby wooden handle in ebony, capped with ivory(Thanks Bill!!!!).
A 28mm Finest badger from TGN was Gooped to the ring and the medallion fixed to the handle and finally it was epoxied together.
I dig the outcome and am especially glad Bill gave this project exactly what it needed! Ebony and Ivory!
I present Amadeus, The Brush!
"Don't be stubborn. You are missing out."
I rest my case.
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11-08-2013, 09:17 PM #2
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Thanked: 1263A very traditional looking brush there. Nicely done
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sharptonn (11-09-2013)
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11-08-2013, 09:27 PM #3
Super idea and execution! I oft listen to classical while shaving as well. Hopefully I can think of something cleaver as well. Thanks for sharing.
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11-08-2013, 09:37 PM #4
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Thanked: 3226Well conceived and executed. Man that is a fine looking brush.
BobLife is a terminal illness in the end
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sharptonn (11-09-2013)
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11-08-2013, 09:42 PM #5
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Thanked: 2027Holy Crap. thats amazing,Tom and I talked about this project for a couple mos. I think.
I never understood exactally what he was going to do,You did a fantastic Job Tom,Hats off to you
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sharptonn (11-09-2013)
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11-08-2013, 09:54 PM #6
Sweet brush. Really nice job.
Luis“There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth”
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11-08-2013, 10:00 PM #7
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Thanked: 4249Cool project Tom, the ivory really sets off the medallion, Enjoy!
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11-08-2013, 10:15 PM #8
Very nice
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sharptonn (11-09-2013)
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11-08-2013, 10:19 PM #9
Very nice Sharptonn brilliant design idea
Definitely the right choice to get Bill to redo the handle it really compliments the design and finishes it right
Excellent execution ladsLast edited by Substance; 11-09-2013 at 06:25 AM.
Saved,
to shave another day.
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sharptonn (11-09-2013)
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11-08-2013, 11:38 PM #10
I bet Il Commendatore would love that.
No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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