Recently I got an old Brooks Brothers Rooney that had some pretty big cracks around the top and shoulders of the handle. The knot itself was fantastic and the size, weight and balance near perfect so I wondered if maybe I should get it bored out beyond the cracks and put in a new knot?
But the existing knot was fantastic, another of those really wonderful old knots like you just can't find these days. Then I had a thought that hearkened back to when I owned sailboats and faced the continuing struggle to seal all those little cracks and leaks that seem to be standard equipment on boats, trailers, RVs, caravans, old cars and old folk. For all but the latter the answer was Capt. Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure; a liquid that penetrates cracks through capillary action and then cures to seal and stabilize everything.
Capt Tolley's is amazing but requires patience. You put just a drop on a crack and watch it wick its way from the surface into the crack. You wipe down any excess and wait for about 30-60 minutes and repeat the process. When you get to the place when it no longer draws the substance in you stop and let it cure at least over night.
The Spa Treatment took about three days but now instead of cracks there is a clear filler. You can still see and somewhat feel the cracks but they no longer allow water in and it all seem stable. Since the process pull the liquid as far down the crack as possible first before that application cures and then capillary action repeats the process the whole crack gets filled layer by layer.
I'll put the brush in rotation and see how it does but I'm hoping to get another decade or two from it.
But the existing knot was fantastic, another of those really wonderful old knots like you just can't find these days. Then I had a thought that hearkened back to when I owned sailboats and faced the continuing struggle to seal all those little cracks and leaks that seem to be standard equipment on boats, trailers, RVs, caravans, old cars and old folk. For all but the latter the answer was Capt. Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure; a liquid that penetrates cracks through capillary action and then cures to seal and stabilize everything.
Capt Tolley's is amazing but requires patience. You put just a drop on a crack and watch it wick its way from the surface into the crack. You wipe down any excess and wait for about 30-60 minutes and repeat the process. When you get to the place when it no longer draws the substance in you stop and let it cure at least over night.
The Spa Treatment took about three days but now instead of cracks there is a clear filler. You can still see and somewhat feel the cracks but they no longer allow water in and it all seem stable. Since the process pull the liquid as far down the crack as possible first before that application cures and then capillary action repeats the process the whole crack gets filled layer by layer.
