Hello fellow shavers, greetings from Brussels! My first post since joining last week and after reading this thread from front to back. I started collecting brushes recently and your very interesting comments about restoration and collectability of the 400 brush has inspired me to purchase both the 3 and the 4 brushes. As soon as I get them, I will post before and after pix. Now if I can just find the fine grit sand paper!
Auto paint supply houses should carry rough to smooth wet or dry papers. A range from 220, 400, 600, 1000, 1500, & 2000 make good steps. Then you go to polishing compounds.
@Anel Causevic are you making your own knots? Please tell me more! I have access to horse mane & tail. I'm sure I can lay hands on boar bristle.
No not at the moment. I am just restoring razors and learning how to restore and make shaving brushes. But i do hope in future i will be making by brushes from start to finish
Guilty as charged! Harder to find these things in "the wild" in Belgium, so I'm forced to the auction sites...
I have used this Tuxedo knot for two days in a row. One day with soap and the other with cream. This is now my favorite synthetic knot. It is soft and still has enough backbone to work up a good lather with a hard soap. It's also a beauty. I cant find anything bad to say about it.
'A couple of finished projects' That's a bit of an understatement if I ever heard one. Very nice work.
Things I have learnt, whilst restoring mine: It's not advisable to use 180 grit sandpaper, even if your holding it lightly, because you got bored with waiting for the postman. It will scratch the handle and it will take you a long time to remove those scratch lines. Be patient and start slow. Grades of micro mesh are not equal to grades of wet and dry paper. Don't use 400 grit micro mesh and then use 600 grit wet and dry; you've just undone all your previous good work. Even grades of different micro mesh are not the same. I got 400, 600, 800, 1000 and 1200 grit, on a cloth backing, it worked really well then I moved onto the micro mesh pads - 1500 all the way up to 12000. Once again I undid a lot of the previous work. Deep sigh.
One is grit size compared to micron. Here is a screen shot of the conversion. I hope this helps somebody down the line. Tom . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
