Custom Acrylic brush.

This is my first go at an Acrylic brush. It was fun to do and a nice challenge. This one is for a fellow member, Redcane, who was very patient while we waited for the acrylic to finally arrive. This one has been sanded, inside and out, to 2500 and then polished with headlight scratch remover (plastic polish.) It turned this acrylic into glass! Very happy with the polish it produced. The knot is a TGN GradeA with a loft of 50mm.

Thanks for looking fellas!!:chapeau




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Sanded to 2500, before plastic polish.
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After 2 rounds of polishing.
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Edit, I should thank Pixelfixed for passing on the acrylic supplier.

im more of a wood/horn loving guy !! BBBUUUUTTTT i love that brush !! that turned out wonderful !! nice job !! everything came together nice for sure !!

Absolutely beautiful!! Wow! I might need one of those.

Pete <:-}

Fantastic,Great work.

Another home run in my book, congrats.

Bob

Looks AWESOME! :tu

That is hot!

Super shine on that, nice choice of colours. Great lines, and cool that you can see the set knot within..
Might need to try that out in the future..
Nice work.

Great job. The glow is fantastic.

Man is that thing sweet!!!!!! Better than anything I could have imagined. My wife is never impressed by anything shaving related and she loves it! Thanks so much Andrew.


If anyone is curious about the colors, I am a life long Miami Hurricanes fan.

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Originally Posted by Redcane

Man is that thing sweet!!!!!! Better than anything I could have imagined. My wife is never impressed by anything shaving related and she loves it! Thanks so much Andrew.


If anyone is curious about the colors, I am a life long Miami Hurricanes fan.

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No Problem Kyle! Thanks for the opportunity to turn some acrylic. Because of you I now have 192" of acrylic rod. :) I couldn't just order 1 color!! :D

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Originally Posted by MikeB52

Super shine on that, nice choice of colours. Great lines, and cool that you can see the set knot within..
Might need to try that out in the future..
Nice work.

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Mike, I'll hook you up at the next meet, just let me know what color.

Andrew I got a feeling I will be ordering another, this away I can help you pay for it... haha.

It'll never go bad!! :)

I was sorta bummed when i saw they cut it all into 2' lengths. Was hoping to make a light saber outta the green......hahaha.... Ya right!

Make sure you PM me all the info so I can make things right on my end. Man I can't stop looking at it. Haha!!!

Very nice job overall.

192' sheesh your going to have to start turning bats, drum sticks, mini light sabers, and some brushes.

OR Redcane is going to buy about 576 brushes. What color next ? :<0)

Very nice brush. Stop making want to add to my "to do list"

Got to agree with Mike B52. The choice of colors is great, and the polish is fantastic. I've used the Micro Mesh pads before on acrylic pens, but don't think I went down that far for the two acrylic brushes I did. Wet sanding with the Micro Mesh, you really don't need any polish afterwards.

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Originally Posted by 10Pups

192' sheesh your going to have to start turning bats, drum sticks, mini light sabers, and some brushes.

OR Redcane is going to buy about 576 brushes. What color next ? :<0)

Very nice brush. Stop making want to add to my "to do list"

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Ha, Yer too late Pups! I saw my mistake and fixed it. 192 feet of acrylic rod would take my wife's parking space in the garage. :)

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Originally Posted by irish19

Got to agree with Mike B52. The choice of colors is great, and the polish is fantastic. I've used the Micro Mesh pads before on acrylic pens, but don't think I went down that far for the two acrylic brushes I did. Wet sanding with the Micro Mesh, you really don't need any polish afterwards.

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Ya Irish, the colors I wasn't sure about when kyle told me what he wanted. But once it was done I really liked the combo.

As far as the micro mesh, you don't even need it when using the plastic polish. I do all my sanding at 800 rpm. For the polish I crank it up to 2200 and it leaves any type of plastic like glass. It even works on buffalo horn very well.

Great job, as always.
I really like the curves

Holy Crap Andrew that Brush looks awesome.

Just a quick question. Did you actually glue the 2 pieces of acrylic together yourself or was it custom ordered in those colors? Curious minds want to know!

Pete <:-}

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Just a quick question. Did you actually glue the 2 pieces of acrylic together yourself or was it custom ordered in those colors? Curious minds want to know!

Pete <:-}

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Good question Pete, I "fused" them myself. Its a solvent you use to basically melt and fuse the two pieces together.

I cut the lengths I need on a mitre saw and then flatten the ends to be glued with 600 wet sand paper. With a thinner material you actually set the two pieces to be fused together and add the solvent to the joint. The solvent is very thin, thinner than water. It migrates through the joint through capillary action and bonds them immediately. The joint continues to strengthen over a 48hr time period and then reaches full strength, which is now one solid piece of acrylic.

Because this rod is 1 5/8" the solvent has a hard time reaching the middle before it sets up.... ya it evaporates and sets up that fast!! There are different solvents, so a different one might work better for my application. But, I'll use what I got! So I drop 3-4 drops on one side while the pieces are not touching, and quickly put them together. You have to make sure they are lined up perfectly when they go together. It's nice I can do this myself because I can do any colour combination with the colours I have.


Here's some interesting info. Something I've seen done, that the duck call guys use is Flame polishing. They take a very small torch with high heat and run it over a finished piece and it polishes it like nothing you've ever seen. Its really cool. Makes polishing the inside very easy.

Here I'll post a vid.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUxQgGpdFM


I'll stick with my headlight polish. :)

Really awesome looking brush. But for some reason I cant stop looking at it an thinking of the candy ring pops. Looks good enough to eat LOL. Great work harry.:bow

That is some talent right there! Man that brush looks awesome. Great job!

Really, really nice, Andrew! And here I went and decided no more brushes this year! Sigh.........;)

Andrew, I'm going to have to look into a life of crime if I'm going to buy anymore brushes from you. Up till Mabel and Rudy it was a brush is a brush is a brush for me. Now look what you did to this old farts resolve to not go near any ADs for the year.

Great work as always. Now cut a few short lengths in thirds and glue them together for a tri-color handle (cut the long way.)

Gorgeous brush! Love the colors and the polish is perfect. Seeing the knot is cool too.

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Andrew, I'm going to have to look into a life of crime if I'm going to buy anymore brushes from you. Up till Mabel and Rudy it was a brush is a brush is a brush for me. Now look what you did to this old farts resolve to not go near any ADs for the year.

Great work as always. Now cut a few short lengths in thirds and glue them together for a tri-color handle (cut the long way.)

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Thanks Richard, Lol. And as for the multi colored, cut into thirds, I'll definitely try it!

All of you who are admiring Andrew's work. He is a pleasure to work with. He did all this in the middle of the holidays and was exceptionally flexible with me. I can't wait to get it!

Great Work! It looks like it glows it's so shiny.