Bottle Cap Brush Project

[GDCarrington]

For a long time I had a bottle cap from a bottle that had long since served its purpose and was thrown away. I saved the cap because it was better quality than the bottle it came with and I thought it could be used on another bottle in the future. However, I was looking at one of my boar brushes and saw that the handle was the same size as this bottle cap.

I knew I had a TGN Synthetic knot at my disposal and then one thing led to another. I stained and finished the wood with Minwax® Polycrylic®. After increasing the bore of the cap slightly and filling the inside with epoxy and BBs for ballast, I proceeded to finish the knot with epoxy and the rest is seen in the images below.

 

[bobfarvour]

What's the bottle cap from ?

 

[itsmedave]

Gary that's beautiful and another wonderful brush. That would look good next to my custom Burma Shave brush....just saying

 

[GDCarrington]

What's the bottle cap from ?

I think it was an old after shave bottle that smelled so bad I threw it away, but the cap was good.

It may have been one of the Dana or Mem products.

 

[GDCarrington]

Gary that's beautiful and another wonderful brush. That would look good next to my custom Burma Shave brush....just saying

Hmm, I wonder why you would think that?

 

[Sledgehammer39]

Awesome looking brush!

 

[joshua1970]

looks like an old english leather cap (Dana)- well done!!

 

[GDCarrington]

Here is the inspiration for the Bottle Cap brush. The Shaving Factory boar brush was one that I really liked because it came in a "broken in" mode right from the first use. I liked the size of the handle and when I saw it ...

 

[cb91710]

looks like an old english leather cap (Dana)- well done!!

Ditto.

Now I'm hoping that some day I'll find my old bottle of Wind Drift with the cork handle... er... cap.

 

[hig789]

Nice reuse of the cap. It turned out great.

 

[NexlevMM]

Those TGN synthetics look so nice. Great job giving that bottle cap a better purpose in life.

 

[GDCarrington]

Here is a first lather with current formulation Williams soap. Yes, I mostly use current formulation Williams as a brush break in and testing soap.

This was a nice moist lather. I applied one test face pass and there was enough for another plus a head lather.

The handle is nice a balanced and fits well in my hand.

This will do nicely!

 

[cb91710]

Hmm....

Getting ideas from this thread.

Maybe use a Veg cap to re-handle a Wee Scott?

 

[GDCarrington]

This does a great job of face lathering. Quick and easy with more than enough for a head shave and two to three face passes with one brush load.

 

[Col Wilburforce Buckshot]

I could do one in green:

 

[GDCarrington]

I could do one in green:

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Be sure to work the plastic cap from the wood so that you can retain the use of the bottle and get the wood exterior.

 

[Col Wilburforce Buckshot]

When I measure the socket in the wood without the cap it measures 26 MM in diameter. Considering it's short stature, that would be a quite a brush.

 

[GDCarrington]

That cap is larger than the one I used.

 

[JonM]

Your brush has kindled my muse. When I saw your bottle cap handle, it made me remember that I had a marble wine cork that had most of its cork broken off. The hole appears to be 22mm wide but very shallow (which means trying to make a deeper hole in solid marble. What do you think?

 

[Snargle]

Your brush has kindled my muse. When I saw your bottle cap handle, it made me remember that I had a marble wine cork that had most of its cork broken off. The hole appears to be 22mm wide but very shallow (which means trying to make a deeper hole in solid marble. What do you think?

For a rock, marble is actually pretty soft (It's composed of Calcite, No. 3 of 10 on the Moh's Hardness Scale) so it should be fairly easy to grind out a deeper hole. Take it slow and easy, keep it wet and cool, and protect yourself from the dust. I'll be interested to see the end result. I think it has great potential.