What SB did you use today?

Due to bad arthritis in my hands I tried to make a brush that I could use comfortably.
I have no lathe but over a period of almost 4 weeks I got this thing finished.
It is made of 24mm synthetic fiber. Maple. Pill bottle cap. $2 coin (Twonie in Canadian).
Four coats of Clear automobile lacquer. Nail polish. Lotsa sweat.

I gave it its first test today. It passed with flying colours. Tomorrow is its final exam.
Feel free to laugh.

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Mickey

It's amazing you did that without a lathe! Lots of sweat indeed! Enjoy!

Vie-Long Beehive Silvertip Shaving Brush

Thank you Freddy and Chris.
I neither designed nor made the handle.
I think would be artists call it 'found art'.
I plagiarized (swiped) it from a 40 year old lamp.

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Mickey

DFS Envy White. I want to love this brush but the backbone is too much. Does anyone know if this will get softer with break in?

Wolf Whiskers ST...

Rubberset 400 with Omega 49 reknot

Today has come.

My brush performed as I hoped it would.

It passed Summa Cum Laude.

I am content.

It will now be a part of my weekly brush cycle.

Thank you Freddy and Chris.
I neither designed nor made the handle.
I think would be artists call it 'found art'.
I plagiarized (swiped) it from a 40 year old lamp.

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Mickey

I find myself eyeballing old stools and stair railings, looking for dead spindles laying around. Yiu just inspired me to stop looking and start picking!

I brought home a gorgeous end-grain slab of butternut yesterday from work that I remived from a fireplace mantel I was finishing. Its got some gorgeous endgrain patterns. Im gonna try and make a set of scales for one of my razors...

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Thank you Freddy and Chris.
I neither designed nor made the handle.
I think would be artists call it 'found art'.
I plagiarized (swiped) it from a 40 year old lamp.

[Image: IMGP6195.jpg]

Mickey

I find myself eyeballing old stools and stair railings, looking for dead spindles laying around. Yiu just inspired me to stop looking and start picking!

I brought home a gorgeous end-grain slab of butternut yesterday from work that I remived from a fireplace mantel I was finishing. Its got some gorgeous endgrain patterns. Im gonna try and make a set of scales for one of my razors...

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You two are incredibly resourceful and talented. I have a friend in Toledo who enjoys hitting the charity stores and has found some wonderful things that he either reuses or repurposes. Whenever I'm with him I almost always leave these shops empty handed. As I told him, when we go into this type of store all I see is junk. All my friend sees is possibilities.

Rooney 1/1 Finest (22mm/49mm)