if you guys go to your local muffler shop they may give you some cut offs ranging anywhere from 1/78 inside diameter to 3 inch any length you like.slice them into 2 halves with a hach saw.hold them together with hose clamps for pouring and remove clamps for removing the blanks..multiple uses..you could line the inside with tape as a release agent.poured many products and sand casting in another life..
Another brush handle in the anodizing tank today. This setup was originally put together to strip nickel which I never needed to do in large batches. I'll be investing in a much bigger tank in the next few weeks. Right now it's one at a time.
This one is Teal. It's actually going to be a makeup brush for my Grandmother. Using this design with a 20mm knot seems to work well. At least that's what my wife says. I'm curious how many men would be interested in this color.
Here is my latest brushes, JR#416 and 417. Made from Bolivian Rosewood. They are a Celtic knot brush handles. I finished 416 with a silvertip badger and sent it off to Canada. I then waited on my 2-band badger to arrive. It arrived Friday, and I finished 417 by setting the knot.
Very nice Jim! I love the laminate patterns. Truely unique work you're doing. Where do you get the medallions set in the base of some of your handles?
Thank you. I get my conchos from here: https://www.stecksstore.com/decorative-leathercraft-conchos/ I got the poppy from: https://www.pinmart.com/
Rosewood is among the scents in one of the Bill Neumann aftershaves I'll be ordering(1911). I'd never heard of the word before so I looked it up in my dictionary. I can imagine it smelling great.
I get some weird stuff in the mail. Zincate is used as a preparation step for electroplating aluminum. It uses sodium Hydroxide to etch the aluminum oxide layer off the aluminum while depositing a layer of zinc to prevent the oxide layer from reforming. Then an acid copper is used to etch away the zinc which is then replaced with copper. Then a layer of nickel followed by whatever you want. A nickel plated aluminum brush is in my future. I wonder how many attempts it will take to see success. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk
Something quite different for me this week. I turned a razor handle for my RR Aluminum V2 Hawk. Started out with a pen blank in true Rosewood. Pressure fit it between a live and dead centre. Drilled out the hole in the end first: I had a few problems holding something that small, so ended up doing a fair amount of sanding off of the lathe. Hacksawed off the threaded part of the original handle and Countersunk it in the pre drilled hole. Pre drilled it as I didn’t want it to shatter drilling it after with such thin walls. Meant it to be thicker, as I wanted some weight and beefiness. I’m happy with how it looks: I turned a few brush handles for some friends as well. I was happy to get back in the lathe room, it had been far too long.
