My First Restores

**ras120** · 04-06-2012, 09:30 PM

I finally got around to doing this, and although I believe there is plenty of room for improvement, I'm pretty pleased with the results.

The butterscotch and Lucite handles are both Klenzo, and the metal (aluminum?) is a Rubberset. All the knots are from The Golden Nib with a 20mm two-band Finest in the butterscotch, a 20mm Silvertip in the Lucite, and a 24mm two band Finest in the Rubberset. The rest of the (approximate) specs are:

Butterscotch -- 50mm handle, 52mm loft, 102mm total height

Lucite -- 50mm handle, 54mm loft, 104mm total height

Rubberset -- 82mm handle, 52mm loft, 134mm total height

The Rubberset is (was) completely hollow inside, so I used some plastic spacers and epoxy to create a platform to mount the knot and to add some much needed weight.

As I found them...

After drilling and polishing...

After the new knots...

**goatee** · 04-06-2012, 09:34 PM

nice job!!! i love the butter scotch.

**Vickers** · 04-06-2012, 09:49 PM

Wow! Night and day, great job.

**NexlevMM** · 04-06-2012, 09:51 PM

Damn fine job drilling those out!

**Oblique Human** · 04-07-2012, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by goatee

nice job!!! i love the butter scotch.

+1.. Good work.

**Snargle** · 04-07-2012, 05:27 PM

Very fine restoration job on all three. You brought them back from the dead!

**ras120** · 04-07-2012, 07:14 PM

Here's a post-bloom shot of the butterscotch -- it really did come out quite nice.

The biggest goof I think I made was being over zealous with the epoxy, but these knots sure as heck aren't coming out anytime soon.

**Sledgehammer39** · 04-08-2012, 01:47 PM

The Trio look awesome!

**pezhore** · 04-10-2012, 09:26 AM

Great job, especially with the black/clear handle. I've been having some trouble with mine - I tend to chip the black painted part. Did you re-paint prior to setting the knot? How did you go about removing the hair on that brush?

**ras120** · 04-10-2012, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by pezhore

Great job, especially with the black/clear handle. I've been having some trouble with mine - I tend to chip the black painted part. Did you re-paint prior to setting the knot? How did you go about removing the hair on that brush?

I think the black is actually a little cup that is set into the handle rather than paint. I was able to preserve the bottom portion, but some of the black on the sides did get removed. I repainted it and also used black epoxy when I set the knot.

As for removing the hair, I just drilled it out very carefully to not damage the bottom of the black cup.