My restored and shop-made brushes

[Kravocks]

Very nice 
Beutifull. 

[ZECA]

Que  belo pincel!
Deu vontade de ter um de pau-brasil.

[ischiapp]

Outstanding!! Congrats!!

+1
 

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Que  belo pincel.

+1
 

[vferdman]

I have restored three brushes by commission.

Here they are.

An unknown English resin handle with two band finest and Ever Ready 100T with two band finest.




Here is a huge resin butterscotch handle of unknown origin, but boy, is it an amazing brush! 26mm two band finest.



Here it is next to a Gillette Big Fellow (a large razor)



Hope you enjoy them.

[vferdman]

I made another brush for my inventory. This one is from the butterscotch pearl resin blank. Amazingly beautiful material. Photos do not do the justice to the way the light plays with this stuff. This is a small travel size brush. The knot came out to 21mm, loft 44mm. The setting is just about perfect after a test shave. The lather release and flow through are perfect. As much as I love my Wee Scot, I think this brush is way better and only ever so slightly larger.

Here she is:

[Kravocks]

 
Beautiful!!!
 

[vferdman]

It's been a bit slow in my brush making shop, but I did get another vintage celluloid handle restored. This one is McNess and is Kelly Green. It looks stunning with a black two band finest knot in it.

Here it is:









The dimensions are:

Handle: 61mm
loft: 49mm
Knot: 23mm

This one is a beauty. It did have some radial cracks near the knot hole, which I had to fill from inside and out. Inside I used JB-Weld and on the outside I filled the cracks with CA and then sanded smooth to a high gloss. The cracks are visible, but are completely filled and are one with the rest of the surface of the brush. The rest of the handle was in excellent shape. I really wanted to save this one because it is an old style celluloid handle of very good ergonomic design. These are hard to find in the wild.

[goaman]

Nice!!! Beautiful brush!!!

[vferdman]

I got a few more brushes in the works for restoration and re-knotting.

This is an Ever-Ready 200T. I gave it my signature E-R hourglass handle treatment. Eased the sharp corners at the top and bottom, smooth the seam between the two sections so it feels like a single piece of plastic, added weight into the hollow of the handle. This one received a synthetic knot from Whipped Dog. It's about 26mm the way I set it.

[vferdman]

I just finished another restoration/re-knotting. This time it's Ever-Ready C40. I remember finding my own C40 a few years ago when I started wet shaving again. I actually bough that one myself in a local CVS in the 80's. It had very little use and I did my first ever brush restore on it by replacing the pretty awful shedding boar knot with a black pure badger knot that Larry from Whipped Dog donated to me to encourage my experiment. Thank you, Larry! That brush came out pretty good, but as pure badgers are prickly it did not see much use and I ended up giving it to a friend who does not shave often and actually enjoys the scritch in the pure badger for his shaves. Again, thank you, Larry!

This time I came across a seemingly unused C40 and decided to fit it with best badger knot. It came out great. I added ballast weight to the hollow of the handle as I usually do for hollow handles and this thing is now a substantial brush. About 23mm knot 47mm loft.

[vferdman]

My first attempt at working with buffalo horn. This piece came out beyond my expectations and I reluctantly entered it into my Etsy store inventory as I am really tempted to keep it for myself. This horn blank had two diametrically opposed longitudinal cracks, but the structure of the horn is such that the cracks do not deepen. I shaped the handle first, then filled the cracks with progressive coats of CA, then sanded everything smooth and polished to a high shine. cracks are still somewhat visible, but completely sealed. This process took a long time, but it was worth it.

[Silver Surfer]

Congratulations! The last 2 are extremely beautiful! 

[vferdman]

I got a commission from a leg shaver for a large two band brush. I went with TGN F2 and ended up with the following:









The dimensions are as follows:

Total height: 94mm
Handle height: 43mm
Loft: 51mm
Knot: 32mm

This brush easily is the largest I have ever made or used. for such a huge brush it performed wonderfully for face lathering. It held about three times more lather than I required for my 3+ passes. The beauty of this resin is difficult to depict with still photography. It really requires a movie because different colors poke through as the handle is rotated. I am very pleased with the way this one came out.

[marcodelima]

Knot 32mm it's a dream...

[Silver Surfer]

Congratulations!!!
What an amazing brush! I simply love the handle and the knot!!!!
I would love to have such a beauty!