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I love it when a plan comes together ...
Some years ago when the choice of knots was very limited, I used the screw-in Muhle STF knot to reknot a number of vintage handles. Vintage brushes do tend to be on the smaller size with their knots so the 21mm girth suited these vintage handles very well.
I put up this 100T for sale recently (on the left in the picture below) but nobody bit once the trio had been split up:
... but I'd kinda pulled the 100T anyway since I really love the handle. I love the handle and I love boars. Hmmm.
Last evening, a plan hatched ...
I have a Semogue 1250 which is very underused and to be frank I'd always pick the SOC before the 1250, but I do like the knot. The knot is labelled as their Best quality with 90% tops and comes in at a (vintage sized?) 22mm and is ring-collared. Can I pull the knot?
Not a chance - it's epoxied in there and not coming out!
So, with dubious skill and a handful of blunt tools I set about liberating the knot:
Sawed off and then cracked the remaining wooden ring with a chisel and cleaned up/cracked off the remaining set epoxy ... and popped into the 100T to test fit, which proved so perfect I don't need to glue it in and really don't want to pull it back out to reveal the mess underneath. You'll have to imagine.
Pictured here against the SOC for the purposes of reference:
... and happily rehomed into the Pig Pen greeted by a couple of Vulfix Coronets:
What's great here is that I love the handle and wanted to modernise it for today's use, which with the Muhle STF was a perfectly good plan those few years ago but today I prefer boars and really pleased to have restored a boar knot back into this handle, which is how it first came to me. Modern boar in a vintage handle. Bliss!
I'll ping @TobyC coz he keeps missing posts and he does love to see a piggy released back into the wild.
Some years ago when the choice of knots was very limited, I used the screw-in Muhle STF knot to reknot a number of vintage handles. Vintage brushes do tend to be on the smaller size with their knots so the 21mm girth suited these vintage handles very well.
I put up this 100T for sale recently (on the left in the picture below) but nobody bit once the trio had been split up:
... but I'd kinda pulled the 100T anyway since I really love the handle. I love the handle and I love boars. Hmmm.
Last evening, a plan hatched ...
I have a Semogue 1250 which is very underused and to be frank I'd always pick the SOC before the 1250, but I do like the knot. The knot is labelled as their Best quality with 90% tops and comes in at a (vintage sized?) 22mm and is ring-collared. Can I pull the knot?
Not a chance - it's epoxied in there and not coming out!
So, with dubious skill and a handful of blunt tools I set about liberating the knot:
Sawed off and then cracked the remaining wooden ring with a chisel and cleaned up/cracked off the remaining set epoxy ... and popped into the 100T to test fit, which proved so perfect I don't need to glue it in and really don't want to pull it back out to reveal the mess underneath. You'll have to imagine.
Pictured here against the SOC for the purposes of reference:
... and happily rehomed into the Pig Pen greeted by a couple of Vulfix Coronets:
What's great here is that I love the handle and wanted to modernise it for today's use, which with the Muhle STF was a perfectly good plan those few years ago but today I prefer boars and really pleased to have restored a boar knot back into this handle, which is how it first came to me. Modern boar in a vintage handle. Bliss!
I'll ping @TobyC coz he keeps missing posts and he does love to see a piggy released back into the wild.
