Vintage Simpson KH2 Butterscotch handle

[Jcabbage]

I received my great grandfathers Simpson KH2 shortly before christmas and the knot looked like it was on its last legs but today i wanted to see if it would still do the job. so i quickly wet the brush and almost the whole knot came out. This leads me to my next question, does anyone know if the current kh2 knot is the same as a vintage one? Any help would be great, now for a few pictures...

 

[melyus]

i prefer 26mm Tgn finest 2 band with my kh3 and i like it so much..

 

[Jcabbage]

Looks great melyus, what did you use to polish the handle?

 

[rebos]

Fantastic restore. Was that a dent in the "before" pics, that you had to sand out? Looks like a mean one. I guess you had to sacrifice a bit of the
Simpsons script in the sanding and polishing stage. Worth it though, considering the result.

 

[melyus]

Looks great melyus, what did you use to polish the handle?

I bought handle from hig789 as it is than set the knot...

 

[MaxP]

lol

Great spikey brush. Thanks for the pic!

Seriously. An option is to send it to Mark at Simpson and have them reknot it.

 

[Jcabbage]

Maxp, that could be a cool idea to have simpson reknot it. Do you have marks contact information?

Seriously, you wouldn't believe what a lather hog this spikey brush is

 

[hig789]

And yes I regret selling that KH3 to you melyus. But I have a couple more to take its place now.

Here's my KH2 with a TGN 20mm grade a silver tip. That one should clean up very nice and it makes it that much better that it was your grand fathers.

 

[Jcabbage]

whats the best way to polish these handles? i have no experience in this at all.

 

[hig789]

I use a low speed buffer and Flitz mainly. But you have to be very careful with a buffer, you can easily mess up that pretty color. Try Flitz or Maas both work very well. Also Mothers plastic polish.

 

[Jcabbage]

I'll have to try and find that, not sure how easy it is to find in Germany but maybe i can find a good alternative.

 

[Mark1966]

I had two brushes re-knotted by Simpson just before Christmas, you can see pics here. Great result and Mark was great to work with - I'd highly recommend them for a great job on the re-knotting

 

[hig789]

I'll have to try and find that, not sure how easy it is to find in Germany but maybe i can find a good alternative.

You should be able to order a tube of any of the above of eBay for pretty cheap. Restoring it is not hard, and to me it would mean more if I restored my grand fathers brush myself.