Thread: Birds eye Maple and Horn

My finest Badger knot decided to pop out of the old handle I made. Decided it needed a new home as it's my favorite. Guess I didn't have it sealed the whole way around, at any rate a good excuse to make a new one

She looks great & she's back on the line.

nicely done!!

Ray

that is a beauty!! would go great with this one I did.

I see that! Very nice, I like it. If I hadn't glued the knot in all ready I might have offered it to you. They certainly look like they belong together.
I have a good bit of Birds eye left and some horn, I may have to try my hand at a rescale.

Originally Posted by Str8Shooter

that is a beauty!! would go great with this one I did.

Originally Posted by Trimmy72

My finest Badger knot decided to pop out of the old handle I made. Decided it needed a new home as it's my favorite. Guess I didn't have it sealed the whole way around, at any rate a good excuse to make a new one
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Great work!

I bought a cheap lathe and want my first handle to be something like that length, since I almost always use a nice big scuttle. But, I wonder if I make a handle that large - how to store it? It looks like you could hang that one. Or, could you stand it on the base? Or, just lay it down on it's side?

Originally Posted by RADisorder

Great work!

I bought a cheap lathe and want my first handle to be something like that length, since I almost always use a nice big scuttle. But, I wonder if I make a handle that large - how to store it? It looks like you could hang that one. Or, could you stand it on the base? Or, just lay it down on it's side?

Honestly I wish I could hang it but I can't, it stands on it's base. I could probably lay it in my scuttle it's tall enough to not cause an issue.
I had an old Ever Ready that I had restored and sold last year, and I regretted selling it. The brush handle is based on that Ever Ready, it didn't hang either. I think it would look p-r-e-t-t-y cool hanging....

Originally Posted by Trimmy72

Honestly I wish I could hang it but I can't, it stands on it's base. I could probably lay it in my scuttle it's tall enough to not cause an issue.
I had an old Ever Ready that I had restored and sold last year, and I regretted selling it. The brush handle is based on that Ever Ready, it didn't hang either. I think it would look p-r-e-t-t-y cool hanging....

Now that I'm looking at it again, with the initial thought I had that it could hang - I still think it could, but you'd just need a taller than normal stand. I wasn't thinking it'd hang, like many do, next to the bristles, but in the small of the handle.

Any way you store it - cool brush. I like the scuttle idea. If I make one that doesn't fit standing up on my cabinet shelf I can always stand it bristles up in the scuttle to dry.

I was going to say, you could make a custom stand for it. Or another idea I've seen used is a magnet in the end of the handle with a magnet hidden in the stand, or if you have metal shelves in your cabinet it could stick there.