A couple of flea market finds

[fast14riot]

Nothing special, just an Ever-Ready 100 and a nice little Fuller that unscrews between the rubber and base. Anyone know what this feature is for? I didn't even realize it until I got home. I gave $5 for them together. I will get them cleaned up and figure out what knots I want and post pics here.

-Xander

 

[FL shaver]

Five bucks for the pair? That makes them special! Looking forward to the reknotting.

 

[GDCarrington]

Nothing special, just an Ever-Ready 100 and a nice little Fuller that unscrews between the rubber and base. Anyone know what this feature is for? I didn't even realize it until I got home. I gave $5 for them together. I will get them cleaned up and figure out what knots I want and post pics here.

-Xander

IIRC some of the brush makers in the 1950s may have been toying with the idea of upgradable knots, or having brushes that were easily switchable to mix and match to produce different combinations of handle without a large amount inventory to accomplish it.

 

[fast14riot]

Five bucks for the pair? That makes them special! Looking forward to the reknotting.

Well, I didn't buy them as a pair, they were from two seperate vendors, but the white ER100 was $3.00. Picking a knot is the tough part!

IIRC some of the brush makers in the 1950s may have been toying with the idea of upgradable knots, or having brushes that were easily switchable to mix and match to produce different combinations of handle without a large amount inventory to accomplish it.

That makes sense, but once I figured out this thing came apart, I was met with a surprise...this thing is filled with the most dreadfull, gawd-aweful, terrible, horrible smell! I mean his thing smelled like death mixed with crap! I quickly screwed it back together and it is now being cleaned.


-Xander

 

[fast14riot]

So I got that ER100 all cleaned up and ready for a new hair do today. I didn't go all out and try to sand out every little nick and dent, just got all the small scratches, dents and such. There are a few little dings here and there, but I plan to keep this one, so I'm happy with it. Started with a hair cut, thn drilled out the plug, dremel sandin drum to clean up the hole and started my sanding progression at 220# then doubled my grits up to 1200#. Went to the buffer with black compound, then followed by white. This stuff is soft enough to not need all the steps in between.

Next I will work on the fuller, but don have any experiance with the hard rubber. Any tips for working that stuff down? It has some funky scratches and such.


-Xander

 

[Big_OC]

Well, I didn't buy them as a pair, they were from two seperate vendors, but the white ER100 was $3.00. Picking a knot is the tough part!


-Xander

That's easy! TGN Finest!

 

[Porp]

That's easy! TGN Finest!

Agreed

 

[fast14riot]

Got the two piece fuller buffed out today. The base didn't require any sanding, I just went a little aggresive with black compound on the buffer, then to white. The rubber on the other hand took some filing to get the big scratches down, then started at 400, followed by 800 and 1200. Buffed it with black and about lost it! The black compound really bites into this stuff, just about pulled it outta my hands! Smoothed it out and finished with the white.

Looking closer at this brush, I don't think it was intended to unscrew. I can see glue residue in the threads. I figure it was made like the ER100, two pieces to make glueing the knot easier and then glued together.

It still has some buffing compound in it I need to wash out. Also, I noticed small greenish flecks in the black rubber after buffing, is this common with hard rubber?

-Xander

 

[scboch]

Ok, so I just picked up the EXACT came brush at my local antique store (the Fuller) for $8.00. I read the first half of your post, ran downstairs to where I'm working on it, and unscrewed it....

Now the downside. when I was removing the knot, whatever little bit of rubber was under the knot came out with it, so now the rubber section is just a rubber tube now that it's unscrewed. Any idea what I should put in that thing to make it so I can add a new knot to it? I'm at a loss, and don't want to mess up this nice brush handle as my first restore.

 

[fast14riot]

Mine is hollow as well, nothing under the knot. I suspect these were glued in upside down originally. I may go that route with a thixotropic epoxy mix. But I was also considering just turning a wooden plug to fit the top half once I get a knot and tuned to the loft I want.

-X

 

[Deltaboy]

Good job on these two so far.