I've been waiting for a while now for some more material to come in to start some other brushes, so I've been farting around trying some new things. This is something I came up with while reading about pipe making.

The wood is Maple burl and African blackwood. As you can see, I stayed true to my typical gluing techniques. Lol.
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Sanded to 400 grit and applied a black aniline dye
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sanded again with 400 and applied red aniline dye. Sanded up to 1000 and didn't like what I had. I applied more red aniline and left it without sanding.
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Then, a lot of CA and voila! TGN 28mm finest 2 band knot.
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