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The knot is mounted with silicone. I only filled he hole from the mandrel with Epoxy The I had leftover from the CF brush. Tomorrow it will get it first use. so we will all learn together. :tu

No I didn't feel that it needed it. The burl cork and rubberized rings have a bit of heft when compared to natural cork. Plus I filled the hole from the mandrel with epoxy before I glued in the knot.

Finished up with a 20mm synthetic knot. Decided against the aluminum trim ring it was a bit small and made the knot too stiff. Can't wait to give it a go and see how it holds up.
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Final shape. For me this is something I wanted to use what I had for rod building. So the finish is U40 cork sealer it Keeps the cork fishing rod handles from turning black so fast and makes cleaning...

Extremely rough shaping just to see where I want to glue the accents rings a over night dry and final shaping tomorrow.
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Haven't thought about that. I will have to look into it. And see what I have.

I started this experiment this morning. I found that the cork ring I had here are only 1 1/4OD witch leaves very little room for the inlet for the knot. 1 1/2-1 3/4OD would give me more room. so I...

I don't think that will be necessary. After all shave brushes really shouldn't be going through much abuse.


I always enjoyed the feeling of unfinished cork. The one is the pictures one was...

solid cork is not easily crumbled. But I will consider this an experiment.

I googled this. the burl cork is a lot more dense
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These are a couple of handles I made with the Burl cork. I think it should hold up well
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I did a search but came up empty.
Has anyone made brush handles out of cork or burl cork. I have some materiel around from my rod building days and my lathe is collecting dust so I thought I would...