Share Your Restorations

**Lucky11453** · 03-05-2010, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Rudy Vey

Just finished this restoration. I picked it up last summer or fall in an antique store, never found the time to do this until this week. Had hardly any hair anymore. So, I removed it, drilled the rubber out and cleaned it up. The knot I used is a 20 mm Finest Two-band from TGN, and it is set to 45/46 mm loft.
This will be tested tomorrow morning with a nice soap, that should be a fine face lathering brush.
I am just not sure what make it is, I can only ready a model number "153" on the bottom, and a very faint "....set".

To me....the 20mm Finest is the sweet spot! Great job on the Every-Ready.

**tob1303** · 03-05-2010, 04:53 PM

Rudy, I don't mean to ask you to reveal any trade secrets...but I've been asking everyone - How do you get that nice shine on the black parts of the brush?

Originally Posted by Rudy Vey

Just finished this restoration. I picked it up last summer or fall in an antique store, never found the time to do this until this week. Had hardly any hair anymore. So, I removed it, drilled the rubber out and cleaned it up. The knot I used is a 20 mm Finest Two-band from TGN, and it is set to 45/46 mm loft.
This will be tested tomorrow morning with a nice soap, that should be a fine face lathering brush.
I am just not sure what make it is, I can only ready a model number "153" on the bottom, and a very faint "....set".

**Rudy Vey** · 03-05-2010, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by tob1303

Rudy, I don't mean to ask you to reveal any trade secrets...but I've been asking everyone - How do you get that nice shine on the black parts of the brush?

I buff the handle with white diamond compound and a buffing wheel on my lathe, after buffing, I just wipe the handle down with an old towel to remove small remnants of the compound. As last step I apply some polymer/wax (?) called TSW (Trade Secret for Wood), rub it on, let haze over and buff it with an old T-shirt. I do this on all my pens and brushes, on all kind of materials.

**RedDenver** · 03-06-2010, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Rudy Vey

I buff the handle with white diamond compound and a buffing wheel on my lathe, after buffing, I just wipe the handle down with an old towel to remove small remnants of the compound. As last step I apply some polymer/wax (?) called TSW (Trade Secret for Wood), rub it on, let haze over and buff it with an old T-shirt. I do this on all my pens and brushes, on all kind of materials.

Thanks for that tip. I suspect a buffing wheel on a drill/dremel should also work?

**prophetic_joe** · 03-06-2010, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by RedDenver

Thanks for that tip. I suspect a buffing wheel on a drill/dremel should also work?

I would imagine that it depends on the wheel and your dremel setting. I used a normal polishing pad once, the little round white one, and it melted the plastic on my brush. so you have to be extremely careful.

**tob1303** · 03-06-2010, 05:04 PM

I used a cloth polish wheel set on a low setting in my dremel - couldn't tell if it helped much, but it didn't melt anything.

**routeinfo** · 03-07-2010, 01:13 AM

Here are my restorations. Left is a plastic Ever-Ready 150 with TNG 20mm Grade A Silvertip at 48mm and right is a catalin Ever-Ready 50-A with TNG UK 20mm Super at 45mm.

**Lucky11453** · 03-07-2010, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by routeinfo

Here are my restorations. Left is a plastic Ever-Ready 150 with TNG 20mm Grade A Silvertip at 48mm and right is a catalin Ever-Ready 50-A with TNG UK 20mm Super at 45mm.

They look great...I have one like the green/cream but I think mine is smaller knot. Did the 20mm knot fit or did the hole need to be modified?

**brianw** · 03-07-2010, 11:01 AM

used a 20mm silvertip grade a knot from the golden nib. Got the brush in a lot of razors of FleaBay.. Thank to Mr. Scruffy for the pointers

Please excuse the lousy photography

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**Lucky11453** · 03-07-2010, 11:06 AM

The last picture looks black....is it the same brush?.....

**brianw** · 03-07-2010, 11:10 AM

Yes it is when set back from the light it is a dark purple

**chukka** · 03-07-2010, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by routeinfo

Here are my restorations. Left is a plastic Ever-Ready 150 with TNG 20mm Grade A Silvertip at 48mm and right is a catalin Ever-Ready 50-A with TNG UK 20mm Super at 45mm.

nice resto but whats catch my eyes the most was the music ,nice litterature .

Originally Posted by brianw

used a 20mm silvertip grade a knot from the golden nib. Got the brush in a lot of razors of FleaBay.. Thank to Mr. Scruffy for the pointers

Please excuse the lousy photography

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good job a very nice color (the wine) it merit a nice afterbloom picture

**routeinfo** · 03-08-2010, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by Lucky11453

They look great...I have one like the green/cream but I think mine is smaller knot. Did the 20mm knot fit or did the hole need to be modified?

The TNG UK 20mm is about 17mm at the plug and 20mm at the widest point above the base. Fits perfect without modification.

Originally Posted by chukka

nice resto but whats catch my eyes the most was the music ,nice litterature .

I studied with Warne for four years in the 70's and I met/played with Art about a dozen times. He was sober maybe twice. Such a waste.

**chukka** · 03-08-2010, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by routeinfo

I studied with Warne for four years in the 70's and I met/played with Art about a dozen times. He was sober maybe twice. Such a waste.

lucky men that you are ! i think this is part of their inspiration/music ,the same apply to charlie parker,chet baker, jimi hendrix ,janis joplin ...ect...,maybe without the excess they would be better maybe no .i like them all like this .

**tob1303** · 03-10-2010, 02:26 PM

Here is my latest restore - I have I think 5 others in the works - This is a 22mm Silvertip from TGN - set at I believe 49mm, at least I think that was the measurement - I hollowed out the handle and filled it with epoxy - I think the shelf was set close to an inch down I believe. I also had to expand the hole at the top, which I think was originally around 18-19mm wide - so I used my dremel and a sander bit - because I'm slightly tool deficient - and just eyed it.

It's a classic ever-ready handle...I like these handles because of how the shape almost makes it look like the hair is a continuation of the handle expanding outward. Anyway - it's nice and scrubby and has great backbone.

I was going to post a photo of the bloom, but a day after use it looks exactly the same - which I like. Apologize for the lighting, but took the pictures at night with a very soft light behind me. It is forest green and a creamy yellow.

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**pauls51** · 03-10-2010, 04:02 PM

Nice looking restore there...

Im going to have to finish mine.. If I need to fill the base, will marine epoxy do?; so I can set the loft higher??

**tob1303** · 03-10-2010, 04:10 PM

That is what I use - I let it sit for 2 or 3 days before I touch it, you likely only need 24 hours...but i'm cautious.

Some people use mixtures to fill the handle, like epoxy and saw dust or epoxy and cork shavings.

I'm not very experienced (two restores so far) so take what I say for what it is worth, but this has worked so far for me - generally I'll fill the handle with epoxy up to a little below where I want the shelf (maybe a centimeter lower)...then measure how much higher I need the shelf...and I'll cut a piece of wine cork with that specific height (one that is the proper diameter - if it's a bit smaller than the handle I can't imagine that would be a huge problem) and epoxy that to the now hardened epoxy below and make that the shelf - this way it is a very flat shelf - then just epoxy the knot to the cork shelf.

To measure the thickness of the piece of cork you need - I simply use an end of cork that is much too thin for the diameter of the handle, and cut that and put it in the handle and then place the knot on top of it - if it needs to be smaller I cut it - once I have it at the right thickness, I then cut the end of the cork that isn't too skinny to exactly that thickness and there you go.

**Schwert** · 03-10-2010, 04:24 PM

I have used the epoxy and chopped cork as fill in the base. Last one I did I redrilled that hardened fill to the desired 'shelf' setting.

Routeinfo----That green/white EverReady 50 with UK super is a real eyecatcher....nice nice nice.

**EFaden** · 03-10-2010, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Schwert

I have used the epoxy and chopped cork as fill in the base. Last one I did I redrilled that hardened fill to the desired 'shelf' setting.

Routeinfo----That green/white EverReady 50 with UK super is a real eyecatcher....nice nice nice.

+1 for the cork trick. I also have used whole corked and then epoxy to fill in the rest of the space.

**KiltedShaver** · 03-11-2010, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by EFaden

+1 for the cork trick. I also have used whole corked and then epoxy to fill in the rest of the space.

+1 I've done this as well. I also have a piece of dowel rod I am planning on using for this purpose as well. Still gives the brush a decent heft without using up so much epoxy.