Having already ruined one cheap and one good brush by not having a proper place to dry them, I went shopping. There is one (and only one) place in town that shall remain nameless to protect the greedy. They carry Art of Shaving stuff and I found a combination razor (mach 3 ***)/brush/bowl/stand for a mere seven hundred and fifty dollars! So I went on line and found this on Fendrihan's:
http://www.fendrihan.com/wood-base-stand-shaving-brush-safety-razor-chrome-p-122.html
43 dollars!?! And what are you supposed to do? Use and clean the little wooden ridge for drips?
So, I found a drip/soap bowl:
http://www.fendrihan.com/nickel-plated-bowl-shaving-soap-p-83.html
25 more dollars . . . at least it's nickel plated.
A couple of days later, I was in the local dollar store, picking up some of the plastic scrubbies that the Sigfem likes for dishes and ran across these little stainless steel bowls with handles that were marketed as "egg frying pans".
A whole $5.25 later, I owned ten of them. I knew I would use up a few playing with concepts and that the rejects would be good for holding parts when working in the garage.
A quick visit to the steel scrap yard yielded two thicknesses each of aluminum (for proof of concept) and stainless steel rod and six discard stubs of pipe for mandrels. When I went to pay, the yard guy looked at me like I was retarded, then said "uh, yeah, sure, how does a dollar sound?"
So I got out my hammers and wound up with this: (the soap is for scale and is a fresh Col Conk Bay Rum) A buddy of mine says he'll chrome dip it next week.
- John
http://www.fendrihan.com/wood-base-stand-shaving-brush-safety-razor-chrome-p-122.html
43 dollars!?! And what are you supposed to do? Use and clean the little wooden ridge for drips?
So, I found a drip/soap bowl:
http://www.fendrihan.com/nickel-plated-bowl-shaving-soap-p-83.html
25 more dollars . . . at least it's nickel plated.
A couple of days later, I was in the local dollar store, picking up some of the plastic scrubbies that the Sigfem likes for dishes and ran across these little stainless steel bowls with handles that were marketed as "egg frying pans".
A whole $5.25 later, I owned ten of them. I knew I would use up a few playing with concepts and that the rejects would be good for holding parts when working in the garage.
A quick visit to the steel scrap yard yielded two thicknesses each of aluminum (for proof of concept) and stainless steel rod and six discard stubs of pipe for mandrels. When I went to pay, the yard guy looked at me like I was retarded, then said "uh, yeah, sure, how does a dollar sound?"
So I got out my hammers and wound up with this: (the soap is for scale and is a fresh Col Conk Bay Rum) A buddy of mine says he'll chrome dip it next week.
- John
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