Silver Birch Brushes

[Steven_jagger]

Local Irish yew with a birth year coin and a boar knot fitted

 

[ShaunWistow]

This is Shaun's walnut whip 26mm tuxedo and birth year coin, the 1st brush I made for someone else


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Happy to be the 1st SBB customer

 

[Blademonkey]

Local Irish yew with a birth year coin and a boar knot fitted

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That local Irsh Yew with birth year coin attached must have been made for someone with considerable taste, what a lovely brush! P.

 

[Steven_jagger]

This is a piece of olive wood that i picked up and tried something a bit different shape wise but finds in your hand quite well, this was going to be my holiday brush but ran out of time before going away, shown with 26mm 2 band and silvertip

 

[Steven_jagger]

I love working with zebrano and had this piece left so it turned into a "chubby style" handle shown drying after the finishing coat was applied.

 

[Steven_jagger]

This was my first go at turning a cracking looking blank from Charles Andrews, it was messy lots of strings but fun.

 

[Steven_jagger]

Trial run tonight with bubinga and some lichtenberg burning.

 

[Gairdner]

Cracking work there, sir!

 

[Steven_jagger]

Cracking work there, sir!

Thank you, it turned out pretty good apart from the couple of black spots, need to finish it off and see how it looks when coated.

 

[Grishnak]

Beautiful

 

[Steven_jagger]

This is my 1st go at pouring and mixing my own resin then turning, I have had a pin and now have a handle that suits it

 

[Grishnak]

That looks beautiful! Though I do love some of the spatter wood grains too.

What did you pour the resin in to make the blank?

I assume you poured separate colours in but did not mix
Have you tried clear coat resin on a wooden turned handle?

 

[Steven_jagger]

That looks beautiful! Though I do love some of the spatter wood grains too.

What did you pour the resin in to make the blank?

I assume you poured separate colours in but did not mix
Have you tried clear coat resin on a wooden turned handle?

Thanks, the resin was poured into a 2" cylinder and then added a base colour and mixed it then added the next 2 colours, unfortunately the white disappeared, all my wooden handles are covered in 3 layers of a plastic coating to protect them, I would like to do a hybrid wood burl resin handle at some stage.

 

[Grishnak]

@Steven_jagger have you ever turned a lathering bowl?
I imagine you could ridge the bottom and give it an epoxy coating.

Could be a thing of beauty

 

[Steven_jagger]

@Steven_jagger have you ever turned a lathering bowl?
I imagine you could ridge the bottom and give it an epoxy coating.

Could be a thing of beauty

I have a couple of bowl blanks that i have thought about trying to put a spiral pattern into to help with building up lather, maybe someday as there is a lot of time that has to go into them.