You may have seen a couple of threads that I started over the past month or so. I have been asking for your guys advice on my first brust restoration. You have been a massive help and I wouldn't have been able to do it without all of you helping me, so thank you.
In this thread I thought I would show what I used and a little step by step of what I did, which may help others with their first restores.
It has been tricky and every step I have had to take a step back and ask a question and look into it. First what knot size, how to remove the knot and with what tools.
So I bought a Dremel and a Dremel workstation, not just for brush restorations.
Firstly I cut the knot off as close to the base that I could. Then using a hand held vice to clamp the handle I drilled a pilot hole into the knot. I was amazed at how much soap dust came flying out of it, it smelt like old man.
Then I used a Dremel 115 bit to clear out all of the hair and glue. It took a while, I didn't want to take too much off the edges and I didnt want to go too deep either.
The next step was to see if the knot fit into the handle, it did, hurray! But I couldn't get it to sit further into the handle.A couple more questions later and It was clear that the handle had to be widened to accommodate the knot sitting lower.
For this I used the 600 grit Dremel sand drum. Again going slowly and constantly checking to see how the knot would sit.
The hole had to be widened a fair bit, more than I expected but that was a good thing as I originally thought that I had gone to deep into the handle.
It all worked out and the knot is set in there and looking great.
The knot is a TGN 22mm Finest Badger, set to a 50mm loft.
Again thanks to you guys for all the advice.
In this thread I thought I would show what I used and a little step by step of what I did, which may help others with their first restores.
It has been tricky and every step I have had to take a step back and ask a question and look into it. First what knot size, how to remove the knot and with what tools.
So I bought a Dremel and a Dremel workstation, not just for brush restorations.
Firstly I cut the knot off as close to the base that I could. Then using a hand held vice to clamp the handle I drilled a pilot hole into the knot. I was amazed at how much soap dust came flying out of it, it smelt like old man.
Then I used a Dremel 115 bit to clear out all of the hair and glue. It took a while, I didn't want to take too much off the edges and I didnt want to go too deep either.
The next step was to see if the knot fit into the handle, it did, hurray! But I couldn't get it to sit further into the handle.A couple more questions later and It was clear that the handle had to be widened to accommodate the knot sitting lower.
For this I used the 600 grit Dremel sand drum. Again going slowly and constantly checking to see how the knot would sit.
The hole had to be widened a fair bit, more than I expected but that was a good thing as I originally thought that I had gone to deep into the handle.
It all worked out and the knot is set in there and looking great.
The knot is a TGN 22mm Finest Badger, set to a 50mm loft.
Again thanks to you guys for all the advice.
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