Thread: Beehive acrylic and wood

Another combination of acrylic and wood. The top is Amber transparent acrylic and the base is Briar burl with plateau grain. Still messing around with how to sand these wood/acrylic combinations. Generally when I sand solid acrylic brushes, I like to keep them saturated in water when I wet sand. I keep them very wet which I find improves the wet sanding immensely. With the combination of the wood, I can't do that, so I add teak oil to the entire brush and use that for sanding the entire piece. Seems to work all right but is def more of a pain because it's so much thicker than water. Next time I think I'll try bringing the wood up to final sanding grit, saturate it in oil, and then proceed with sanding the acrylic with water...... Hope it works.

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That's a Honey of a brush! Sweet!!

That brush is just yummy! Also looks like the old time electrical insulators, but better.

A fantastic looking brush.
One of the Shavemac knots in there?

Great hive Andrew. Truly a honey of a brush. That knot looks perfect set in those colors.

Originally Posted by Thug

A fantastic looking brush.
One of the Shavemac knots in there?

Not one of the ShaveMac knots. This is a Verginia Sheng 2 bander, 24mm size. IMO, the best Chinese made knots at the moment.

That's a great combination of classic and modern.

Pete <:-}

Very nice!
I've gotten 2 knots from V. Sheng.
Very nice....so far so good.

Very nice, Andrew. I haven't seen that combination before, and they go very well together.