New Brush No Lathe

[Errol]

Errol and his trusted Dremel back at it again. The Thater Premium Two Band was ordered in February but thanks to CovidPost arrived last week. I've had the buffalo horn blank roughed out for a while and just needed some inspiration to get started.

 

[Pbgoose]

Errol and his trusted Dremel back at it again. The Thater Premium Two Band was ordered in February but thanks to CovidPost arrived last week. I've had the buffalo horn blank roughed out for a while and just needed some inspiration to get started.

I like it.

 

[Holiday]

Bewdy! @Errol, I think this one is your best yet

 

[SpeedyPC]

Errol and his trusted Dremel back at it again. The Thater Premium Two Band was ordered in February but thanks to CovidPost arrived last week. I've had the buffalo horn blank roughed out for a while and just needed some inspiration to get started.

I like it.

You’re killing both of my seriously enabler kidneys

 

[alfredus]

Wow...looks wonderful

Don't want to imagine, what you could achieve with an actual lathe...but maybe you should get one ; )

 

[Errol]

Resin Handle – My First



This resin stuff always seemed like magic to me. I know many have mastered mixing colour combinations to produce some fantastic shades and swirls resulting is magical finished pieces. Up to now, I’ve stuck with natural substances, wood and because I have a small supply of them buffalo horn; love the feel of a buffalo horn shave brush handle. While talking with my sister, she mentioned she was fashioning items in resin but not shave brush handles. Great, I’m in the Territory and she’s down south. While visiting recently, I was pleasantly surprised when I dropped in to find her dressed in work cloths, gloved up with moulds everywhere pouring resin and generally playing around with a mix.

Would you like a go? There was some resin left over so she went looking for a mould. I explained that I thought conduit was what the ‘professionals’ used; at that time I spotted a paper cup and there was enough resin left over to fill it, that would be my mould. What colour do you want? A red, blue, green and a yellow would do because I didn’t have time to think about what I wanted; let alone how I was going to achieve it. She reached into her box of goodies and come up with eight or ten different colours, then produced some thumb sized cups. How much colour powder do I need? Enough to get the colour you want. If I had any idea what I was doing, the whole process would have been so much easier. A bit of resin in the thumb size cups, a sprinkle of powder, mix and I end up with about eight different colours. I poured a bit of two colours into my mould and Sister looked and advised that I should give it a bit more time. OK, start pouring; in with a bit of this colour, that colour, another colour till I have my mould full. Sister looks at the conglomeration of resins I have poured and informs me that they can sometimes blend together, certainly looks like they have blended into one another to me. I’m only looking at the top of the pour but there are some areas where a more solid colour is visible, maybe I’ll get some interesting colour out of this mess I’ve made – my first resin blank.



It's been a while since I made a brush handle but the knot I was going to use was never in doubt. In the very first brush handle I made I used a Golden Nib 27mm Boar; it is still being used and I just love it. Out with the Dremel, how I wish I had a lathe.




I’m reasonably happy with my new creation, but what did I learn:

• There is a lot to learn about resins.
• Don’t use too many colours
• Go light on the colours and don’t oversaturate all the colours
• Pour at the right time
• Experiment

Lookout tomorrow, here comes Errol with his new piggy.

 

[Garry357]

Resin Handle – My First



This resin stuff always seemed like magic to me. I know many have mastered mixing colour combinations to produce some fantastic shades and swirls resulting is magical finished pieces. Up to now, I’ve stuck with natural substances, wood and because I have a small supply of them buffalo horn; love the feel of a buffalo horn shave brush handle. While talking with my sister, she mentioned she was fashioning items in resin but not shave brush handles. Great, I’m in the Territory and she’s down south. While visiting recently, I was pleasantly surprised when I dropped in to find her dressed in work cloths, gloved up with moulds everywhere pouring resin and generally playing around with a mix.

Would you like a go? There was some resin left over so she went looking for a mould. I explained that I thought conduit was what the ‘professionals’ used; at that time I spotted a paper cup and there was enough resin left over to fill it, that would be my mould. What colour do you want? A red, blue, green and a yellow would do because I didn’t have time to think about what I wanted; let alone how I was going to achieve it. She reached into her box of goodies and come up with eight or ten different colours, then produced some thumb sized cups. How much colour powder do I need? Enough to get the colour you want. If I had any idea what I was doing, the whole process would have been so much easier. A bit of resin in the thumb size cups, a sprinkle of powder, mix and I end up with about eight different colours. I poured a bit of two colours into my mould and Sister looked and advised that I should give it a bit more time. OK, start pouring; in with a bit of this colour, that colour, another colour till I have my mould full. Sister looks at the conglomeration of resins I have poured and informs me that they can sometimes blend together, certainly looks like they have blended into one another to me. I’m only looking at the top of the pour but there are some areas where a more solid colour is visible, maybe I’ll get some interesting colour out of this mess I’ve made – my first resin blank.



It's been a while since I made a brush handle but the knot I was going to use was never in doubt. In the very first brush handle I made I used a Golden Nib 27mm Boar; it is still being used and I just love it. Out with the Dremel, how I wish I had a lathe.




I’m reasonably happy with my new creation, but what did I learn:

• There is a lot to learn about resins.
• Don’t use too many colours
• Go light on the colours and don’t oversaturate all the colours
• Pour at the right time
• Experiment

Lookout tomorrow, here comes Errol with his new piggy.

Looks great, very impressive you can achieve that uniform shape without using a lathe. Look forward to others if you make more.

 

[TroyTools]

how I wish I had a lathe.

Well done Errol, excellent effort.

Be careful what you wish for regarding a lathe. The lathe itself is only part of the equation.
Believe me, there is so much more expense for tooling / sharpening required before you can do anything at all with a lathe.
Its good fun though, but gets expensive real fast.

 

[Gargravarr]

Well done Errol, excellent effort.

Be careful what you wish for regarding a lathe. The lathe itself is only part of the equation.
Believe me, there is so much more expense for tooling / sharpening required before you can do anything at all with a lathe.
Its good fun though, but gets expensive real fast.

I was wondering when you might chime in. Lathes (even in their simplest forms) are wonderful things, but things can go amiss very quickly. I've met several dedicated woodturners with missing fingers. And I've read your posts about workpieces flying apart. But @Errol's effort is very impressive. Cutting a uniformly circular socket and profile without a lathe is no mean feat.

 

[TroyTools]

@Errol's effort is very impressive. Cutting a uniformly circular socket and profile without a lathe is no mean feat.

Absolutely right, hand carving a three dimensional object to that round and curved shape takes a great amount of skill and patience that's for sure. Beautiful result.

 

[Bladerunner7]

Resin Handle – My First



This resin stuff always seemed like magic to me. I know many have mastered mixing colour combinations to produce some fantastic shades and swirls resulting is magical finished pieces. Up to now, I’ve stuck with natural substances, wood and because I have a small supply of them buffalo horn; love the feel of a buffalo horn shave brush handle. While talking with my sister, she mentioned she was fashioning items in resin but not shave brush handles. Great, I’m in the Territory and she’s down south. While visiting recently, I was pleasantly surprised when I dropped in to find her dressed in work cloths, gloved up with moulds everywhere pouring resin and generally playing around with a mix.

Would you like a go? There was some resin left over so she went looking for a mould. I explained that I thought conduit was what the ‘professionals’ used; at that time I spotted a paper cup and there was enough resin left over to fill it, that would be my mould. What colour do you want? A red, blue, green and a yellow would do because I didn’t have time to think about what I wanted; let alone how I was going to achieve it. She reached into her box of goodies and come up with eight or ten different colours, then produced some thumb sized cups. How much colour powder do I need? Enough to get the colour you want. If I had any idea what I was doing, the whole process would have been so much easier. A bit of resin in the thumb size cups, a sprinkle of powder, mix and I end up with about eight different colours. I poured a bit of two colours into my mould and Sister looked and advised that I should give it a bit more time. OK, start pouring; in with a bit of this colour, that colour, another colour till I have my mould full. Sister looks at the conglomeration of resins I have poured and informs me that they can sometimes blend together, certainly looks like they have blended into one another to me. I’m only looking at the top of the pour but there are some areas where a more solid colour is visible, maybe I’ll get some interesting colour out of this mess I’ve made – my first resin blank.



It's been a while since I made a brush handle but the knot I was going to use was never in doubt. In the very first brush handle I made I used a Golden Nib 27mm Boar; it is still being used and I just love it. Out with the Dremel, how I wish I had a lathe.




I’m reasonably happy with my new creation, but what did I learn:

• There is a lot to learn about resins.
• Don’t use too many colours
• Go light on the colours and don’t oversaturate all the colours
• Pour at the right time
• Experiment

Lookout tomorrow, here comes Errol with his new piggy.

Errol, this is fantastic. Psychedelic my friend, I had no idea you could craft these...WOW

 

[Pbgoose]

Resin Handle – My First



This resin stuff always seemed like magic to me. I know many have mastered mixing colour combinations to produce some fantastic shades and swirls resulting is magical finished pieces. Up to now, I’ve stuck with natural substances, wood and because I have a small supply of them buffalo horn; love the feel of a buffalo horn shave brush handle. While talking with my sister, she mentioned she was fashioning items in resin but not shave brush handles. Great, I’m in the Territory and she’s down south. While visiting recently, I was pleasantly surprised when I dropped in to find her dressed in work cloths, gloved up with moulds everywhere pouring resin and generally playing around with a mix.

Would you like a go? There was some resin left over so she went looking for a mould. I explained that I thought conduit was what the ‘professionals’ used; at that time I spotted a paper cup and there was enough resin left over to fill it, that would be my mould. What colour do you want? A red, blue, green and a yellow would do because I didn’t have time to think about what I wanted; let alone how I was going to achieve it. She reached into her box of goodies and come up with eight or ten different colours, then produced some thumb sized cups. How much colour powder do I need? Enough to get the colour you want. If I had any idea what I was doing, the whole process would have been so much easier. A bit of resin in the thumb size cups, a sprinkle of powder, mix and I end up with about eight different colours. I poured a bit of two colours into my mould and Sister looked and advised that I should give it a bit more time. OK, start pouring; in with a bit of this colour, that colour, another colour till I have my mould full. Sister looks at the conglomeration of resins I have poured and informs me that they can sometimes blend together, certainly looks like they have blended into one another to me. I’m only looking at the top of the pour but there are some areas where a more solid colour is visible, maybe I’ll get some interesting colour out of this mess I’ve made – my first resin blank.



It's been a while since I made a brush handle but the knot I was going to use was never in doubt. In the very first brush handle I made I used a Golden Nib 27mm Boar; it is still being used and I just love it. Out with the Dremel, how I wish I had a lathe.




I’m reasonably happy with my new creation, but what did I learn:

• There is a lot to learn about resins.
• Don’t use too many colours
• Go light on the colours and don’t oversaturate all the colours
• Pour at the right time
• Experiment

Lookout tomorrow, here comes Errol with his new piggy.

You've got to be kidding me. I don't know how you end up with something so uniform. Nice work!

 

[Errol]

Errol, this is fantastic. Psychedelic my friend, I had no idea you could craft these...WOW

You've got to be kidding me. I don't know how you end up with something so uniform. Nice work!

Just lucky I guess. In practice I never use any measuring instrument while I’m carving away, not even when it was finished, relying totally on my eye to keep things the way I want. Of course I have it use emery paper to finish off and polish with metal polish. Without the knot, the handle passed the roll test with barely a wobble. Now that I’ve used it a few times I’m starting to better appreciate what I have.

 

[SpeedyPC]

I have a feeling that @Errol will be creating a business shaving brush hobby soon, when he’s fully ready completing his master skills.