Another Ever Ready restoration, this time a 150 ... Before ... And after polishing, re-weighting, re-lettering and re-knotting with a 22mm Maggard's tuxedo synthetic knot. Another Dapper Ever Ready in a Tuxedo! As always more to come ...
An Ever Ready 150 ... Before ... After much work and not the best work I've done, but sometimes damage makes for hard calls ... polish to a proper shine or loose makers marks. Installed a Maggard's 22mm synthetic after weighting it. As alway ... more to come
I picked up an unknown brush a few months back, with no makers makes on it I would guess it was manufactured in the 60's or 70's. Before ... I hadn't realized just how tiny this brush was until it arrived (~3" total). It was dirty, base was askew and the bristles were in fair shape, but decided to re-knot. I removed the knot, removed the crocked base from body, cleaned, polished, reassembled and installed a 20mm synthetic Maggard's 20mm Tuxedo knot. A lot of what you see on the body is reflection. Stands at about 3.25" or 80mm. Definitely a travel brush that's good for another 40 or 50 years. As always ... more to come
Restored a Klenzo B985 I had laying around for about 6 months ... Before ... Old knot removed, polished and new Maggard's 20mm synthetic Tuxedo installed. As always ... more to come.
Good afternoon everyone, well I'm in the process of restoring this Never-Shed brush for my daughter In-law and I would like some input on a knot. I've narrowed it down to natural. That's right no synthetic for this brush. I'm thinking Finest badger, horse hair or Boar. I plan on staining the handle blue if that alters your opinions. Try to let me know if it's from your experience of the knot or if its just what you think would look nice (neither in wrong). Thank you in advance.
With the handle being blue I would think a blond boar or a silver tip (gray) knot would look sharp. Only thing I'm iffy on is the grey ferrule. Are you going to polish it? Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
Definitely the handle is going to be stripped of the black and ferrule will be polished up. Going to use Bombay blue or turquoise India ink. Then when I'm happy with the color I'll soak it for a week or two in teak oil. The soaking really turns back the time in the wood. I'll post pictures of the progress.
Like both colors but no idea how the wood will take the color. My next question was going to be about the color. Im very interested in seeing how it comes out. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
On page 2 and 4 of this thread I used a combination of green food coloring and green India ink to achieve the color in the two brushes.
Thank you for the compliment ... I'll try to track the process on this one a bit closer since it is a gift.
Well after starting the restoration of the brush I mention above I decided it really wasn't my daughter in-law's style. So I had this one and switched gears to this one. Yes I know; kind of .... well ugly. No that's not what I'm saying about my daughter in-law. The natural looks beautiful, but she likes blue. Used India ink to dye; it will lighten when I buff and polish. The receiver for the knot was so miss shaped that I'm improvising a new one. As always ..... more to come.
