Dave in KY
Monkeying Around
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- Saturday September 4, 2021
Good recovery!Here it is just mocked up to see what it will look like. Still want to do some final sanding before assembling. NOT what I was hoping for but at least it will be salvaged..........unless I mess it up further.....
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Thanks but it ain't done yet, plenty of time for me to destroy it stillGood recovery!
Yeah, I need to get a nicer dremel to polish it versus my awkward/bulky Rotozip which damaged one before. ThanksWow. Shame about that Albright ferrule. Still, fingers crossed all further fettling goes according to plan and you get a nice brush out of it in the end. I thought it was gonna be a horror story about the 400, which was how I imagined any effort on my part to fix one up.
After removing the knot in the wood one I saw the 20 mm Boar knot I had for it was tight due to an inner metal ring the old knot came out of and was still running around the interior of the ferrule. I used a dremel on the inside trying to sand down the metal ferrule..............yep, you see where this is going and why I dread doing brush restores. It heated it up to the point I saw smoke and noticed a spot the size of a pencil eraser head blacken on the ferrule. (Toby warned me it burned easy and fast but this surprised me) That's not bad enough, it continues to smoke and spread until the entire ferrule desitigrated before my eyes........I was left with this wood handle and blackened metal band from the knot.
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After removing the knot in the wood one I saw the 20 mm Boar knot I had for it was tight due to an inner metal ring the old knot came out of and was still running around the interior of the ferrule. I used a dremel on the inside trying to sand down the metal ferrule..............yep, you see where this is going and why I dread doing brush restores. It heated it up to the point I saw smoke and noticed a spot the size of a pencil eraser head blacken on the ferrule. (Toby warned me it burned easy and fast but this surprised me) That's not bad enough, it continues to smoke and spread until the entire ferrule desitigrated before my eyes........I was left with this wood handle and blackened metal band from the knot.
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I know, I keep scouring auction sites hoping for a bad wood part of a brush with a better donorferrule. Lesson learned from this will be remembered. ThanksThat really is a shame, it was looking pretty good and had clean lettering, but I'm glad you didn't just ditch it, it's a nice handle shape in the hand.
After removing the knot in the wood one I saw the 20 mm Boar knot I had for it was tight due to an inner metal ring the old knot came out of and was still running around the interior of the ferrule. I used a dremel on the inside trying to sand down the metal ferrule..............yep, you see where this is going and why I dread doing brush restores. It heated it up to the point I saw smoke and noticed a spot the size of a pencil eraser head blacken on the ferrule. (Toby warned me it burned easy and fast but this surprised me) That's not bad enough, it continues to smoke and spread until the entire ferrule desitigrated before my eyes........I was left with this wood handle and blackened metal band from the knot.
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