Post by HoosierTrooper on Jun 27, 2013 17:52:46 GMT -6
Here's the three brushes I've been working on for awhile. From left to right they are an Erskine, Rubberset 203 and an Ever-Ready 100T. The handles are all in really good shape, they just needed a little cleaning and polishing. All three knots are glued in with Loctite silicone adhesive.
The Erskine does not have a model number, on the bottom it says imported badger across the top, Erskine in the middle and set in rubber and sterilized under the word Erskine. It's very faint. I got this brush about three years ago and it's been a great little brush, but the knot is starting to "hollow out" in the middle and every time I use it it loses 5 or 6 hairs. I read somewhere that Erskine quit making brushes around 1952 so I figure that since it's at least 61 years old it was time to retire the knot. The original knot was about 16 mm so I opened the hole up so that it could take the new one, which is a TGN 18 mm Silver Tip Badger.
Before:
After:
I love the handle of the Rubberset, the knot it had was the typical stiff boar that was common on these. It never lost a single hair. The only thing that I was disappointed in when I was working on this one is that it has Genuine Rubberset stamped on the black part of the handle that was originally filled with white paint. I tried to repaint it but the R and U and the E and T are too shallow to hold paint. I think it would look great with the white lettering but I couldn't get it to work. The knot was replaced with a TGN 20 mm Finest Badger XH.
Before:
After:
The Ever-Ready 100T was given to me by the beav a couple years ago. The original knot was a large boar knot that actually worked pretty good, but has become a shedder. I love the white and turquoise handle and decided it needed a nice, new knot. It now has a TGN 24 mm synthetic that I chose because it looks pretty similar to the original.
Before:
After:
The Erskine does not have a model number, on the bottom it says imported badger across the top, Erskine in the middle and set in rubber and sterilized under the word Erskine. It's very faint. I got this brush about three years ago and it's been a great little brush, but the knot is starting to "hollow out" in the middle and every time I use it it loses 5 or 6 hairs. I read somewhere that Erskine quit making brushes around 1952 so I figure that since it's at least 61 years old it was time to retire the knot. The original knot was about 16 mm so I opened the hole up so that it could take the new one, which is a TGN 18 mm Silver Tip Badger.
Before:
After:
I love the handle of the Rubberset, the knot it had was the typical stiff boar that was common on these. It never lost a single hair. The only thing that I was disappointed in when I was working on this one is that it has Genuine Rubberset stamped on the black part of the handle that was originally filled with white paint. I tried to repaint it but the R and U and the E and T are too shallow to hold paint. I think it would look great with the white lettering but I couldn't get it to work. The knot was replaced with a TGN 20 mm Finest Badger XH.
Before:
After:
The Ever-Ready 100T was given to me by the beav a couple years ago. The original knot was a large boar knot that actually worked pretty good, but has become a shedder. I love the white and turquoise handle and decided it needed a nice, new knot. It now has a TGN 24 mm synthetic that I chose because it looks pretty similar to the original.
Before:
After: