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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #105 on: January 04, 2015, 07:42:54 pm »
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I have created a brush in the Ever-Ready 200T style. I really love this style of handle. I find it to be one of the best shapes ergonomically. The material is deep purple pearl poly resin. This stuff is gorgeous in person. Photos do not represent the color correctly no matter what I do. I tweaked the color balance to get the purple in the handle closer to reality, otherwise it just showed up as blue. If anyone has tips about photographing purple things with digital cameras let me know.

Brush Dimensions (approximate):

Total height: 101mm
Handle: 53mm
Loft: 48mm
Knot: 26mm Bulb shape











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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #106 on: January 13, 2015, 08:37:37 am »
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Dude, your work is just beautiful!
I wish there was a way for me to buy one of your brushes...

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #107 on: January 13, 2015, 09:55:43 am »
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Dude, your work is just beautiful!
I wish there was a way for me to buy one of your brushes...

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #108 on: January 13, 2015, 11:13:03 pm »
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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #109 on: January 14, 2015, 03:42:24 pm »
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Chegou hoje




Hey! I sold that brush to gentleman in Washington state, US. Glad you finally got a hold of one of my brushes. Hope you like it.

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #110 on: January 14, 2015, 04:06:06 pm »
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Hey! I sold that brush to gentleman in Washington state, US. Glad you finally got a hold of one of my brushes. Hope you like it.

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Yes Vladimir,
The Gentleman was very kindness and sold me the brush after knowing my love for it.
I only have to thank him.

Oh and let me say to you that this knot is very good, with such softness.

One word... PERFECT.

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #111 on: January 14, 2015, 10:26:03 pm »
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Yes Vladimir,
The Gentleman was very kindness and sold me the brush after knowing my love for it.
I only have to thank him.

Oh and let me say to you that this knot is very good, with such softness.

One word... PERFECT.

Yes, TGN finest are amazing knots. Enjoy the brush! I'll make more :)

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #113 on: January 15, 2015, 02:43:05 pm »
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Yes, TGN finest are amazing knots. Enjoy the brush! I'll make more :)

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I think, and only for my personal taste, this knot should have more backbone.

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #114 on: January 17, 2015, 03:08:02 am »
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I think, and only for my personal taste, this knot should have more backbone.

Yes, this is personal taste. I like a stiff knot myself, but on these two bands I prefer flow through to super-stiffness. The two band hair is very strong, so allowing more flow is possible much more than with silver tip. I think at this setting the brush works really nicely with respect of generating and releasing the lather as well as volume of lather it's capable of storing. It is possible to increase the backbone by setting the loft lower, but the other factors (flow, volume) will suffer. If you ever want to get one slightly stiffer I can certainly set it that way.

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #115 on: January 19, 2015, 05:50:36 pm »
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I have created a brush for my personal use. It's been some time since I have made a brush specifically for myself. I have had the knot I extracted from the Vufix Grosvernor 404. It is a boar/badger mix knot, but mostly it's boar. And very nice boar at that. Before extracting the knot I used the original Grosvernor once and I really liked it. So I extracted it using steam with intent to save it for a later project. Steam worked really well in this case and the handle was polished and upgraded with TGN two band finest as per customer's request. The original finish on the Grosvernor is not very shiny, but the material is solid resin, so it polishes up to a shine not unlike top of the line Simpsons. The knot exhibited accelerated break in during the steam extraction process. The tips of the boar bristles were very well split. It took me a while to get to it, but I finally decided to use a piece of African Ironwood I had to turn a handle for this knot. This wood is amazingly beautiful and is difficult to represent in photos as it has a similar quality to pearly resins in that the grain plays with light as you move the handle around and produces changing patterns. I finished the handle with multiple CA coats and polished it up to a high shine. I also set the knot much lower than original and opened up the knot opening wider. Original dimensions were 21mm knot/53mm loft according to vendors (I did not measure the original brush). I felt that those changes would improve the performance of this excellent knot.

Brush dimensions (approximate):

Total height: 93mm
Handle height: 47mm
Loft height: 46mm
Knot: 24mm











The brush got its maiden voyage today with Stirling Bergamot Lavender. Wow! It exceeded my expectations. The floppiness is gone and the softness of fully broken in boar is on par with some of the softest badger brushes I tried. The badger hair in the knot is hardly noticeable. Not sure what the purpose of it is, but the overall effect is excellent. The brush feels more like a boar brush, but a very nice one.
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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #116 on: February 06, 2015, 03:28:56 pm »
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I have created a new brush in Leadwood and Cyanoacrylate (crazy glue) finish with TGN two band finest. This a large chunky brush for the "Chubby" lovers. It is large, heavy and has a dense 30mm knot set at 47mm loft. This brush is available in my Etsy store. I really enjoyed turning this wood. It is a bit challenging, but gorgeous and very dense. I departed from my usual recessed bottom and went with a dished out bottom for a change. I think it came out very nice and feels excellent against the palm when held in the working position. I may do this more often instead of recess. Please comment on that. The CA finish on this brush is amazing and really pops the grain out. The photographs do not convey the presence of this brush fully.















As can be seen from the last picture next to a SOC 2012 SE, this is a large chunky brush with a 45mm diameter handle.

Here are the approximate dimensions:

Total height: 106mm
Handle height: 57mm
Handle diameter (at widest point): 45mm
Loft: 49mm
Knot: 30mm bulb shape
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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #117 on: February 06, 2015, 04:38:31 pm »
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If you ever want to get one slightly stiffer I can certainly set it that way.
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Which type of a stiffer knot do you have?

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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #118 on: February 06, 2015, 06:22:44 pm »
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Wow! Que belo espécime!
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Re: My restored and shop-made brushes
« Reply #119 on: February 06, 2015, 06:34:06 pm »
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Lindo!!!

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