Are you ready for some football? My latest creation.

[MeanGene]

I love football. I love the Dallas Cowboys. I love to shave. Here is my latest creation with my own 22mm "Super Silvertip" knot. I've been using it for several days now and it is pretty darn comfortable. The way I've shaped it, you can twist it to get a bigger or smaller fit. In other words, it isn't a perfect circle around the middle.

I know this will come up so I'll go ahead and answer it, I am working on a kickoff tee stand for it. I've been hanging it upside down in one of my cheap plastic handle holders, and it is fine, but I have to get the orange tee going. The handle itself has some substance in it and it weighs 52.45 grams.

What do you think?

 

[Omak]

Since joining these forums I'm always looking at daily items and wondering if I can turn it into a shave brush, good work.

 

[JonM]

Well, there's no accounting for taste in teams. Nice brush though!

 

[Haggises]

That
Is
Brilliant.

except the Cowboys part, that's just unforgivable

 

[oakeshott]

That
Is
Brilliant.

except the Cowboys part, that's just unforgivable

+1. No excuse for being a Cowboys fan, but the brush is awesome. Get a field goal stand, a mirror in between some goalposts and a scoreboard recording the number of weepers per shave and you'll have the awesomest shave den ever.

 

[JonM]

The way the Cowboys play, their fans have been weeping for years.

 

[NexlevMM]

Cowboys baby!! Dont listen to these heathens MeanGene. You're obviously a man of taste.

Haha as for the brush. It made me smile when I saw it, it's on a whole other level of genius!

 

[GDCarrington]

Good work on the brush!

 

[Gigster]

Impressive.

I'm curious how you got all of the bumps on the pigskin.

 

[MeanGene]

I'm curious how you got all of the bumps on the pigskin.

It was part of the mold I made. That part was easy, it was the color mixing that was most difficult. My handles are all resin and I've poured several variations of this, with the one in the picture being the cleanest one.

 

[sychodelix]

Definitely a unique handle. Sorry to bring this up, but is that a crack near the top of the handle?

 

[MeanGene]

Definitely a unique handle. Sorry to bring this up, but is that a crack near the top of the handle?

Good eye! I wondered if anyone would ask about that. That is a line for one of the seams of my mold and is where I sanded down the flashing. It is marked because some of the dye I used in the resin was caught there and it turned out dark brown instead of the mixed color you see throughout. It's solid as a rock though and just more of a paint line now, if you will, where the seam was. Looks kind of like Harry Potter's scar.

Now that I have a decent mold of the shape I want, I can keep cranking them out until I get "the one." This was my first shot at it and it turned out to be pretty nice. Not perfect, but heck, it's hand crafted. It has character.

 

[SuperChris]

Nice brush, Go Cowboys!

 

[Haggises]

I had assumed at first that this was a souvenir item that you made into a brush.
That you made the handle makes it even more stunning!

(Cowboys still suck. 8-8 this year)

 

[sychodelix]

Very nice and creative!

 

[Gigster]

It was part of the mold I made. That part was easy, it was the color mixing that was most difficult. My handles are all resin and I've poured several variations of this, with the one in the picture being the cleanest one.

Now I'm in awe. Very creative!

 

[Sledgehammer39]

Awesome Handle!

 

[shm]

Very very nice

Great job, and I really like the idea of a tee stand

If you don't mind me asking, how did you made or get the handle from?

 

[SliceOfLife]

I think this is the most characterful handle I've seen made here. Not my taste for sure, but you deserve a lot of praise for making something that you like so well. And this technique definitely has potential for making some handles that the more common turning methods would have trouble with.

 

[chrismikehead]

Nice job, and another vote for a tee stand. It needs a tee!