About a month ago I started messing with this project I just wanted to see how it would work out..
I took a section of the straightest Elk Antler I had, and locked it in the chuck and started turning it down S L O W L Y :D after I had the shape I wanted I drilled out the hole for the knot..
So now I had a very lightweight brush handle, as you know the center of Elk Antler is full of holes, so I decided to try the Vacuum Chamber on it, I have never had so many bubbles rise up, :(
It took 72 hours of gradually increasing the vacuum to finally get the bubbles to stop, when I took the handle out it had drastically increased in weight.. After 2 weeks the handle finally was fully dried..
I added the Turquoise to the bottom and proceeded to polish the brush out, the turned antler came out just beautiful almost like ivory so I was really happy with that ..
Just set the 22mm Overstuffed Silvertip knot at 52mm loft...
Brush Porn :)
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Thanks for looking