Thread: Been making some brushes...

Man that is beautiful!!!! You did a fantastic job on that brush! My hat goes off to ya brother.

Originally Posted by engine46

Man that is beautiful!!!! You did a fantastic job on that brush! My hat goes off to ya brother.

Thank you. This is my third lathe brush. I meant to make the top part a bit longer, but I had a catch and blew some material right out. This poly resin is tricky to turn. My next few pieces will be wood of some sort I need a break from resin. But I love the results. Resin really opens up a lot of possibilities with colors.

I have restored another Ever-Ready brush. This one is a blue and creme 200T model. I love these hour glass shaped ERs. They land themselves to restoration very well. As usual in these models I sanded off the sharp corners and the seam between the colors to make the handle feel like a solid one piece object. I also added some ballast weight and filler to the handle, which is hollow on these brushes. This makes the whole brush feel amazingly good in hand. More like a solid material handle than anything.

Approximate dimensions:

Total height: 101mm
Handle height: 52mm
Loft height: 49mm
Knot: 24mm

I'm really liking those resin turns - you're doing good there. I need to get back on that! They can be frustrating like you said...

I have created another LARGE brush. This one is truly large. The knot is 30mm and the rest of the handle is nice and large. I modeled it after "Emperor" or M6 style handles, but way bigger. Those with large hands and craving a large knot in a brush will be delighted. The wood is amazingly beautiful. Pictures do not do it justice. I took some pictures of this brush together with some other well-known brush to represent the scale. This brush is LARGE and beautiful.













Brush Dimensions (approximate):

Total height: 128mm
Handle: 73mm
Loft: 55mm
Knot: 30mm Bulb shape

I have just completed a special to me project. It is re-handling the venerable Omega 49 Pro. I bought the Omega on Amazon and extracted the knot from it and turned a handle I think is more worthy than the ABS plastic one that originally came with it. I really love the Omega 49, but IMO the handle is not very pretty (but fine for the price these go for) and the loft is a bit too high on these brushes. So I turn the handle I think is good for it and drop the loft to around 58mm-60mm. This one ended up at 59mm loft and 28mm knot. Test lathers with this brush produced amazing results and I even had a test shave with it, which proved to be worth the effort. I put this one into my esty store but I am sure I will make one for myself soon. Just love the large Omega boar...











Brush Dimensions (approximate):

Total height: 132mm
Handle: 73mm
Loft: 59mm
Knot: 28mm

Very nice job!!!!! I especially like the 30mm brush you made. I just made a 28mm antler brush the other day. It was supposed to be a longer brush but My forester bit walked on me & went through the side. I had to shorten the handle & make a regular length brush but it all worked out. Since the honeycomb is soft in the center I have been using CA to harden the center up so that the forester bit won't walk on me. I have to use a drill press for now until I get my lathe over here from my mothers house. It still worked out nicely. The handle is 58mm tall & the loft is 56mm.

Originally Posted by vferdman

So, I have been restoring brushes for a few years now. Love that process of breathing new life into old discarded equipment of yesteryear. This is a familiar theme for us wet shavers. Recently, however I began to make my brush handles from scratch. I had some scraps of exotic wood and glued them together and without a lathe (or lathe skills) used my various shop tools to come up with something that I liked using a lot. I then began to experiment with other techniques and was able to use a drill press and a mandrel to actually turn a few pieces using rasps for shaping dowel blanks. It's not a lathe, but I got some good results I would like to share. Any constructive criticism is welcome.

Here are some restores I did:















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Who needs a lathe with results like these. Beautiful mini pieces of art dude FAB

good looking brushes !! sure they will perform well !!

I have created another brush made with Dymondwod and TGN two band finest. This one was inspired by one of my favorite vintage handles - the Ever-Ready 100T/200T/300PBT. It's the hourglass shape, I really like the way this came out. the handle is petite and feels great in hand. I finished it with multiple (over a dozen) coats of CA (crazy glue) and polished it to a glass-like shine.

Brush Dimensions (approximate):

Total height: 100mm
Handle: 50mm
Loft: 50mm
Knot: 25mm bulb shape