Y'all may remember when I started my Ever Ready reknot initially, perhaps not, but either way, you are going to get the gist of it now So, when I got my first one drilled out and was starting to look at knots for it, my wife said that it would be a really good idea to make two more, one for my son and one for my dad. Rarely is a full out authorization for more shave gear given, so I set out to track two more down. The bay yielded one within a few weeks and for a shiny penny. When I was about ready to give up and just make one for Dad and leave my boy out to stumble onto one of his own at some point in the future I get a PM from Dale (PanChango) offering me one that he lost the gumption to complete. I took him up on his super gracious offer and set to work. They were all three pretty grungy and needed a ton of sanding which my lack of skill lead to sanding off the nice little lip on the base to more of a contoured smooth base; at least it is that way on all three of them What I ended up with was one TGN super badger and two TGN silvertips, all 26mm and all set at right around 55mm in loft. So, with a shave mug full of thanks to Dale, here we go: ^I didn't think to take in work photos of the others....^ ^Here are the three as soon as I got the last knot set.^ ^Here is another shot with the blue and white 24 mm short loft silvertip I reknotted too.^ ^And here are the two silvertips after at least one lathering. The one on the left is mine and I've used it about 3 or 4 times now and the one on the right is my son's. He doesn't shave very frequently yet so his isn't done blooming yet.^ I'll have to get Dad to post pics of his when he gets the chance so we can add it in bloom here too. Sorry the pics leave a lot to be desired, I must not have been being very careful or had too much coffee or something?
Very nice fleet of Greenie's! It is amazing how an afternoon of sanding can transform the nastiest looking brush into a work of art!
Very nice work Bob, I actually like the lip sanded down that way.. Kudos on getting a 26mm Super in there, they're more like 30mm haha.
And here it is. NOW I understand the big whoopty doo over "good" brushes. Till now, if it made a lather, that was good enough. Boy howdy have the times changed. Thank You son, for a good brush!
