Kent T4 Restore

[Ice-Man]

Well this came today in the post, that I bought cheap but not knowing how bad it was. It looked grubby as hell as you can see.


So gave it a quick wash to clean it to work on,
but it had a nest hole from pressing to hard.


So out came the knife and it had haircut,



Then set to and removed the knot.



New knot to go back in at a 22mm silvertip.



Cleaned and polished the handle , and set the knot.



Now setting gets its first lathering tomoz to bloom the knot, and then good to go to lather up do first shave. Then leave it in the soap to defunk, it but I will take pictures once with a lather on it, and one with the knot bloomed to follow.

Sorry about the dust around the bottom ridge.

 

[Quijote]

Looks good. Where did you source the knot?

 

[Ice-Man]

I get most from china, but my Rubberset came from whipped dog.

 

[CigarSmoka]

Very nice!

 

[Ice-Man]

Thank you CigarSmoka !!! It came up better than I thought it would.

 

[Ice-Man]

But here it is after its first lathering, but I must admit did use it while it had the Lather it was rude not to.

 

[JWS VII]

Nice work, Ian. Looks as good as new (or better quite frankly).

 

[FarmerTan]

Beautiful!

 

[Ice-Man]

Thank You JWS VII,& FarmerTan, It turned out way better than I thought it would.

 

[bakerbarber]

Great job!

Very nice. I'm surprised that the printing on the handle looks so good considering how abused the original knot was.

 

[CigarSmoka]

It looks even better fully bloomed! @bakerbarber made a good point, the lettering looks new even though the knot looked abused.

 

[Ice-Man]

Great job!

Very nice. I'm surprised that the printing on the handle looks so good considering how abused the original knot was.

It looks even better fully bloomed! @bakerbarber made a good point, the lettering looks new even though the knot looked abused.

Yes that's the bit I cannot understand as I would have thought it would have worn away, as for the knot that would take a lot to get it to that stage.

 

[FarmerTan]

The more I look at that brush the more impressive it looks. Great job!

 

[Ice-Man]

FarmerTan Thank you Dave!!

 

[sfeile]

Looks good Ian. Really well done!

 

[Kurtis]

Nice restore. The tips and density of that knot is impressive.

 

[Ice-Man]

Looks good Ian. Really well done!

Thank you Shawn!! Now It's a great Brush

Nice restore. The tips and density of that knot is impressive.

Kurtis Thank you!! and yes it sure feels good and just the right size.