Today I finally started working on a personal challenge of a brush. I picked it up so see just how far I could bring a brush back. I probably should have just saved the money but like I said I wanted to see what I could do. I also wanted to see how light the base would get as I have seen some of these turn almost white when refinished. I colored my epoxy and heated and squeezed it back into shape and filled the hole with epoxy. I then sanded it all the way down to 60 grit and worked my way up. I went back down to 60 when I noticed all the marks were not gone when workes my way back up to 2500 grit. Then polished it with several grades of polish and finally flitz. She's not perfect but I'm surprised just how much I was able to get out. May try again to move a couple more marks but given how I received it I'm happy with the outcome. I can still see the crack, and see some of the stress marks/cracking but most of it came out and compared to what it is I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. I need to pick up some more variety of sandpaper so that my steps between grit are smaller. Now I have to decide on if I leave the 24mm 2 Band in it or get something like a Tuxedo for it. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
Beautiful work. I'm thinking that the base on that brush must be Catalin, like the handle on a Schick E-series.
Seems very similar. Wish it would have all come out but I think I was asking a lot. Given how it started I fully expected to crack it when I heated it and tried to reshape it!
Dug up an established lilac bush that was too close to the foundation and transplanted a portion of it to a new spot.
Gonna have to try both of those! Never would have considered Leather and Lime Sec. I haven't mixed in a bottle, but Osage Rub and Florida Water go well together. I've mixed 50/50 Pinaud S.R. & English Leather for good results. When the small bottle was used up I did 1/3's those two and Avon Leather. The results have a slight coniferous scent under the mild leather.
Too bad you already have a CT because "slightly coniferous sent under mild leather" would be a good one for someone.
I went fishing. I saw a lot of fish activity but they didn't want to play with me. Nevertheless, it was a grand day on the lake... I was the only one there fishing for much of the day. No TV, no radio, no cell phone service. Very relaxing.
I did a season as a lumberjack 35 years ago and still have memories of my friends singing this song to me when I came home on weekends
@jaxstraww, thanks for turning me on to Heartfelt. Their humidifier works great. Rock steady at 70% RH.
Beautiful lake! I grew up fishing smaller lakes similar to this one, and really loved using light and ultra-light gear.