Thread: What are you working on?

Nice job for not having a lathe. The Dremel strikes again!

Very cool, Mint! It is a 'baseball bat' brush?

Originally Posted by AlanQ

Not my kind of thing but I wonder if there is a Benito Mussolini straight. I figure it would have to be good around the chin if they did make one

I have seen at least one with Mussolini on eBay.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Very cool, Mint! It is a 'baseball bat' brush?

Yes! I started down the path of a Simpson persian jar shape, but had to much meat in the wood and didn't want to attempt a straight line with my saw after I had taken it out of what little squareness there was. Mentally added a bit to the base of the handle and changed my design to the baseball bat.

It's appropriate to our "tradition" of home defense systems. Baseball bats by the bed. So every time someone in the family buys a house, they get a baseball bat as a gift.

,int, I think that show yet another way to skin that cat. Bats and bronze statuary are very good for home defence, along with a cast iron frying pan. The best part is they are not considered weapons.

Looks like my old craftsmen table saw. Cast and heavy! My dad burned the motor up but now that it's rebuilt it's a champ. Looks great Roy.

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Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Looks like my old craftsmen table saw. Cast and heavy! My dad burned the motor up but now that it's rebuilt it's a champ. Looks great Roy.

Thanks! If your motor is anything like the motor on Ski's saw it has to weigh between 40-50 lbs!

Originally the On and Off Switch was on the motor and Ski vividly recalls his dad using a stick to reach back and turn the saw off. Ski just left it in the On position and installed a light switch in a box inline so you can easily turn the saw on or off.

Mint very cool looking brush handle, the woods grain looks really cool.

Great job

Originally Posted by RezDog

,int, I think that show yet another way to skin that cat. Bats and bronze statuary are very good for home defence, along with a cast iron frying pan. The best part is they are not considered weapons.

Or if you are the Prime Minister of Canada an Inuit stone sculpture

Originally Posted by dinnermint

So, I meant to do this days ago. However, I kept reading to catch up on the thread and then it was my bed time.

I didn't actually turn my brush handle. I started out with 1.5" x 1/5" x 12" block of marble wood. I haven't really seen this on the forum, but it was on sale.

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I started out by drilling out the holes and rounding off the corners with my dremel. There are two in the first picture, but I have to finish sanding the second. It's supposed to be nice this weekend, so hopefully I'll finish it up.

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I wasn't sure how I wanted to get my overall shape. My trusty dremel solved this solution. Aaaand about 3 or 4 60 grit drums.

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From there, I used the 120 grit drums to remove the gouges and rough marks. I worked up from 320 grit paper to 2000 grit. I spent awhile handsanding the handle with the 320 paper to develop the shape a little more. My father was in town and I wanted to finish the brush while he was here, so I went with some satin finish Minwax. Otherwise, it would be Truoil. That's what I'm going to do with the second brush, which will be his.

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Well thank you vey much, now not having a lathe is no longer an excuse for me. As if I didn't already have too many projects bumping around in my head!