Thread: What are you working on?

Great set Mike wonderfully executed!

Originally Posted by Panama60

I've often wondered, what is trustone like when it is turned?

All the Trustone has different ratings. Some are easy to turn, some are very, very and I mean very hard to turn. My favourite, the dragonskin that Outback has, is on the easier side. The last bit of Trustone I turned was crazy hard. I did one for Richard (Evnpar) and one for myself.




Both these I had to touch up my edge at least 5 times while shaping.

Originally Posted by Dieseld

Awesome handle HarryWally. Looks very much like the Whaler brushes from Black Ship Grooming. I wondered how they got such a cool look to their handles. You have now enlightened me. I've never got into lathe work so it is all foreign to me

You can buy blanks already made and dyed.

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Originally Posted by Panama60

I've often wondered, what is trustone like when it is turned?

It looks like this.!

I love that dragonskin! Turns like a bugger, sands like no other! (they all wet sand very nicely)

Finished the scales for Paul's razor last nite.

Put a coat of CA, inside the scales and sanded flat again, made a lead wedge, and pinned it up with polished ,domed SS washers, and brass rod. Reset the bevel on a Washita, then to a Fast n Fine barber hone, then a slurried Thurigan, diluting to water. 40 passes on leaded linen, 60 on Russian, 80 on C-Mon Shell.

OH MY...!!!
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Scales are finished in Teak oil, Bee's wax & Orange oil.

Originally Posted by outback

Finished the scales for Paul's razor last nite.

Put a coat of CA, inside the scales and sanded flat again, made a lead wedge, and pinned it up with polished ,domed SS washers, and brass rod. Reset the bevel on a Washita, then to a Fast n Fine barber hone, then a slurried Thurigan, diluting to water. 40 passes on leaded linen, 60 on Russian, 80 on C-Mon Shell.

OH MY...!!!
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Scales are finished in Teak oil, Bee's wax & Orange oil.

Nice work Mike. Where are you guys getting those collars from? I think Tom just sent me some and I've seen them on others. I like em.

I'm doming stainless steel washers, then polishing them.
Do them in brass too.
Two different sizes also.
The larger ones require a under washer, so they don't cut into the scales.

Man those bog oak scales look great! Deep tone and solid shade of midnight. Nice work Mike.

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

All the Trustone has different ratings. Some are easy to turn, some are very, very and I mean very hard to turn. -snip-

Absolutely gorgeous brushes! I take it then that the differences would be like limestone, marble and granite. I use these as references because I once
worked as a union tile setter and lead stone cutter for a marble shop. I used to make eggs and orbs from the scraps, with a belt sander, not a lathe.
I have an idea, if it works, I'll post pics. Don't expect anything soon though.