My RazoRock 400 ReKnot
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3-band sweetness! Looks great 
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Congratulations!
Beautiful job and beautiful brush, my compliments!
That's a beautiful piece of work. Congrats!
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Thanks everyone for the kind words. This was the first brush that I've ever replaced the knot in. It wasn't very difficult to do and was a good learning experience for me. 
Looks great. Probably easier than finding and restoring an old 400.
Decided to follow suit tonight. I’ve never been as happy with this brush with the black plissoft knot. It’s just not a good balance, the handle is so heavy and the knot is so light and soft. I love boars. I am lucky enough to have acquired and use an original Rubberset 400-4 with the original boar knot and love it as well. I had a cheap plastic zenith boar hanging around, so I opted to recreate the classic. I really like zenith boars and this pairing. Now I’ve got one that can be used a bit more often without concern of damaging or wearing out an original.
Rhody
I'm a Lumberjack.
Great work. How did you do it?
Steamed for 30 minutes then pulled the knot out. I’d steam longer next time and let it sit with the lid on for another half hour. The original synthetic plissoft knot came out all at once but in 3 pieces.
There was still a good bit glue and what looked like plaster in the socket. I put the handle in the boiling water for 2 more minutes and was able to us the flathead blade of an SAK to clean it all out.
The donor knot had to have a nickel band/cup removed from around the base, but wain’t too bad. The only thing i am not happy with is the glue holding the knot together. I could have filed it down as it is more like a plastic, not a soft rubberized glue. This would have let me set the knot base in about 2mm deeper, concealing any of the factory glue on the knot. Its not too noticeable, but it will taunt me. I set it into the socket with the clear 5 minute Gorilla epoxy. I used it this morning on some SV Manna Di Sicilia. My wife requested a lather for shaving her gams today, so i also used it to Marco method off the same SV puck. In under a minute on the puck, i was able to move over to her captains choice copper bowl and whipped up a voluminous lather for her.
Despite the loft of the knot being on the taller end of the spectrum, i face lathered and was pleased with the splay, and backbone when painting. It was not, to my surprise, a lather slinger when face lathering. Being that this was the cheapest boar brush knot ive bought from zenith, i was not sure what to expect from it. It feels soft when dry, and the ends are split already. However, the backbone being pretty good at this loft, i do notice a little more new boar scritch from this knot that i have not experienced in my other zeniths. Nothing bad, and will improve with use.
There was still a good bit glue and what looked like plaster in the socket. I put the handle in the boiling water for 2 more minutes and was able to us the flathead blade of an SAK to clean it all out.
The donor knot had to have a nickel band/cup removed from around the base, but wain’t too bad. The only thing i am not happy with is the glue holding the knot together. I could have filed it down as it is more like a plastic, not a soft rubberized glue. This would have let me set the knot base in about 2mm deeper, concealing any of the factory glue on the knot. Its not too noticeable, but it will taunt me. I set it into the socket with the clear 5 minute Gorilla epoxy. I used it this morning on some SV Manna Di Sicilia. My wife requested a lather for shaving her gams today, so i also used it to Marco method off the same SV puck. In under a minute on the puck, i was able to move over to her captains choice copper bowl and whipped up a voluminous lather for her.
Despite the loft of the knot being on the taller end of the spectrum, i face lathered and was pleased with the splay, and backbone when painting. It was not, to my surprise, a lather slinger when face lathering. Being that this was the cheapest boar brush knot ive bought from zenith, i was not sure what to expect from it. It feels soft when dry, and the ends are split already. However, the backbone being pretty good at this loft, i do notice a little more new boar scritch from this knot that i have not experienced in my other zeniths. Nothing bad, and will improve with use.
Someone stated elsewhere you have to be careful with gorilla glue products because they have a tendency to swell... Have you faced that yet ?
The gorilla glue is an expanding glue. The gorilla brand two part epoxy that gets mixed is static and does not expand as it sets.
Good to hear.. I had heard horror stories of glue expanding and splitting handles and wanted to check before you had a catastrophe !!
I think I will try that with my RR 400 24mm plissoft also. Maybe a Maggard SHD 24mm 2 band badger would work.
