Thread: Knotilus

Thanks for sharing. You have quite the imagination and the skills to back it up. That qualifies as a sculpture worthy of an art gallery.

My concern with actually using the brush would be cleaning out all the soap scum that get on my brushes due to hard water. I hope you do not have that issue.

Originally Posted by RayClem

Thanks for sharing. You have quite the imagination and the skills to back it up. That qualifies as a sculpture worthy of an art gallery.

My concern with actually using the brush would be cleaning out all the soap scum that get on my brushes due to hard water. I hope you do not have that issue.

Not an issue.! If you read back, the knot is held in by a magnet, which makes it removeable from the handle.

Super build mike!
Looks awesome and really unique as well.
Love the union of brass and bog, flows beautifully..

Originally Posted by outback

Not an issue.! If you read back, the knot is held in by a magnet, which makes it removeable from the handle.

Thank you Sir! That is one of those design details that one hopes will be noticed only if it turns out well.
I'll wait for feedback on it, he may decide to go with a different knot and glue it in.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Super build mike!
Looks awesome and really unique as well.
Love the union of brass and bog, flows beautifully..

That means a lot coming from a builder of many things, master of many trades, a myth to some, a legend to others, such as yourself. Thank you.
I try to design classic styles, but then I look at the result and it is not that at all. Just gonna have to go with it!

I seem to vaguely remember reading about (or pondering) how well a knot with a magnetic base would work. If it was stable enough that would be awesome changing knots when the mood struck you. Or if you wanted try something different and still use a really nice handle!

After using this brush this morning, I can say the magnet/knot thing caused no issue.
I purposely used SDM, which takes some stirring, to see.

TBH, I attribute the success here to the 'rim extension' providing support. Not certain how it would work without it?
I lean toward retaining the magnet setup as it would help in cleaning the knot and the handle of lather with the rim extension considered. The double-sticky tape holding the magnet to the handle will need to be replaced with epoxy as it came unstuck when I removed the knot. Perhaps a larger diameter rare earth magnet would stick better?
All in all, a cool feature of this brush. I really like the knot as well..

It looked fantastic in your SOTD Tom.