Thread: Dads birthday brush

It's a good thing you are in Canada and I'm on the west coast or I'd add breaking and entering on my resume of job skills. Don't stop amazing us with your work.

You're turning into a Brush making mad scientist, awesome work

Thanks for the comments guys! Of course, I only see the flaws in it. As you can see, I should have aligned the grain on the 2 cocobolo pieces. That alone ticks me off that I didn't do it. There's a few others but I'll spare you my bellyaching.

[QUOTE=HARRYWALLY;1433799] As you can see, I should have aligned the grain on the 2 cocobolo pieces. [QUOTE]

Rookie mistake............................. don't let it happen again!

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Thanks for the comments guys! Of course, I only see the flaws in it. As you can see, I should have aligned the grain on the 2 cocobolo pieces. That alone ticks me off that I didn't do it. There's a few others but I'll spare you my bellyaching.

I agree!!! That , in no way should be handed out as a present. Send it to me and start all over again .
Truth be told , it is beautiful and your dad will love it. Even more knowing who made it for him.

Good show Andrew
You are for sure a talented young man
Mike

Looks wonderful,great work,was it just glued or did you also dowel it?

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Looks wonderful,great work,was it just glued or did you also dowel it?

I have learned from you Bill, it is doweled. The way I turn my brushes with a small mandrel tapped into the knot pocket, I use a 1/2" dowel so that I can still do that. This way it doesn't compromise the dowels strength.

Yea I learned the hard way, composits have to doweled esp with oily woods like CoCo and lignum.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Yea I learned the hard way, composits have to doweled esp with oily woods like CoCo and lignum.

When I first saw how you did it, I thought..... So thats how he prevents them from ripping apart from each other. It only makes sense once you see how to do it.

Thanks for sharing your secrets!

I should add that I also do small cuts in the dowel with my japanese saw , then sand it with 80, all so the epoxy can grab it. I know you often use fluted dowels which would work very well with epoxy. Unfortunatly 1/2" dowel doesnt come fluted. At least not in the 4' lengths I buy it in.