I picked up a couple of ShaveMac made brush handles recently from apshavecoand I’m pretty happy with them. They’re ver nice as you can see below. I was wondering what the loft adjustment feature mentioned at the AP Shave website was about and if you look at the second picture you can see the top of a Phillips screw - I’m assuming that by dialing the screw up or down you can achieve the adjustment to your loft. Great idea! Now on to the annoying little problem, which I emphasize, has nothing to do with AP Shave or the handles. You can see in the first image a couple of boar knots which I was planning to install in the AP Shave/ ShaveMac handles (emphasis on “was”). I love boar knots and I got these on a member’s recommendation a while back. They’re Stoat knots that I think I got from an Etsy merchant. They look pretty nice and I was excited to try them out. As you can see, they’re marked 26mm so I figured they’d fit into the handles which have a 26mm hole. The annoying little problem is that only the plastic base disc is 26mm, the bristles bulge out a little. That’s not normally a problem. I’ve done this before and usually the bristles can squeeze into the hole. It makes for a snug fit which is what you want. In the case of these Etsy Stoat knots, however, it appears that the glue used to adhere the bristles to the base has also bulged out with the bristles so there is no way the bristles are compressing to allow the knot to sit in the brush beyond the thickness of the base disc. That’s just not acceptable. It’s not sufficient gluing surface and I don’t want that much loft. They’re basically defective knots. I will probably be able to glue them into a larger diameter hole if I were inclined to get a couple more handles. I’m not going to enlarge the holes in these handles. I’ll just try to find some knots that are the actual diameter they’re sold as. Annoying.
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