Already posted this picture in The Haul, but thought it belonged here too. I love the colors. This is an Ever-Ready 150, a smallish boar brush. I'd guess it dates from somewhere between the late 30's to early 50's, but honestly, I don't have a clue. Does anyone know if there's a history of Ever-Ready products anywhere? So, this is an eBay find, sniped for eight bucks. The old knot still had that nice boar funk (my dog loved it ), so I'd guess that it hadn't ever been used much. The orange base material had shrunk slightly was rattling in the threaded black top half. Now, it's all filled with epoxy and fitted with a TGN 20mm, fan-shaped, pure badger knot. I really like these little finest badger knots. They work well in soaps because they've got a lot of backbone, but they're still fairly soft at the tips. Oh, and my dog likes the way these smell too!
that sure is purty. I like the pure badger grade, too. My go-to brush is a pure badger- it has the water retention of the bagder grade and the stiffness of a boar. I love it.
Wonderful, yes, those colors are great together. Hmmmm gets me to thinking..... Oh, I hate when that happens
What size knot did you use? I've got a red on white Ever Ready 150 that I've completely run out of excuses on. Will likely re-knot it with boar bristle. Yours sure did come out nice, hope my re-knotting is as good. What kind of epoxy did you use? The Marine, Waterproof type?
That's a 20mm, fan-shaped, finest badger knot. I've been lying for the last few days - thought this was pure badger, but now that I look it up on the TGN site, I see it's really finest. I used marine epoxy to set it in the handle, just because I could find it. I think most epoxies would work fine. I like boar knots too, because the good ones are soft, but will still whip up a great lather in a hard soap. This knot compares favorably to boar in that respect. It's got plenty of backbone, but still holds water like a badger and has soft tips. I think all of my future re-knots will be with finest, at least for a while. FWIW, this is the second brush I've restored with a 20mm finest badger knot. The other one was on a later Every-Ready brush and used the overstuffed 20mm bulb knot. Now that I've used both, I actually like this one (the fan shaped) better. It's counter-intuitive, but the fan just seems to work better with my combination of water (hard) and soaps. Happy restorations!
