Thread: Knot replacement

Well I got this older Crabtree & Evelyn brush cause I really dug the handle. However the bristles seemed to be coming out at a fairly good rate so I decided to try and replace it.


From the way the bristles were coming out I was hoping the base would pop right out - wrong!!

So I went ahead with drilling out with a forstner bit. I put some foam in the vice to try to even out the pressure on the handle a little better.



I guessed keeping that metal sleeve was a pipe dream, and yeah that tore out pretty quickly, even though I was using an undersized bit.
Got down to where I think I needed to be for the loft.

(There's one more drilling operation with the next size bit to clean out the hole that I forgot to take a picture of).

Set the new knot with marine epoxy. I'm not sure if I went deep enough. Oh well we'll find out!



Not sure if this is how everyone else does this, but thought I'd share how I attempted it anyway

Knot is 18mm 2 band finest (TGN)

Happy shaving!