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Bottle Cap Brush Project

For a long time I had a bottle cap from a bottle that had long since served its purpose and was thrown away. I saved the cap because it was better quality than the bottle it came with and I thought it could be used on another bottle in the future. However, I was looking at one of my boar brushes and saw that the handle was the same size as this bottle cap.

I knew I had a TGN Synthetic knot at my disposal and then one thing led to another. I stained and finished the wood with Minwax® Polycrylic®. After increasing the bore of the cap slightly and filling the inside with epoxy and BBs for ballast, I proceeded to finish the knot with epoxy and the rest is seen in the images below.

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Gary that's beautiful and another wonderful brush. That would look good next to my custom Burma Shave brush....just saying :001_smile
 
Here is the inspiration for the Bottle Cap brush. The Shaving Factory boar brush was one that I really liked because it came in a "broken in" mode right from the first use. I liked the size of the handle and when I saw it ...


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Here is a first lather with current formulation Williams soap. Yes, I mostly use current formulation Williams as a brush break in and testing soap.

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This was a nice moist lather. I applied one test face pass and there was enough for another plus a head lather.

The handle is nice a balanced and fits well in my hand.

This will do nicely! :biggrin1:
 
This does a great job of face lathering. Quick and easy with more than enough for a head shave and two to three face passes with one brush load.
 
Your brush has kindled my muse. When I saw your bottle cap handle, it made me remember that I had a marble wine cork that had most of its cork broken off. The hole appears to be 22mm wide but very shallow (which means trying to make a deeper hole in solid marble. What do you think?

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Your brush has kindled my muse. When I saw your bottle cap handle, it made me remember that I had a marble wine cork that had most of its cork broken off. The hole appears to be 22mm wide but very shallow (which means trying to make a deeper hole in solid marble. What do you think?

For a rock, marble is actually pretty soft (It's composed of Calcite, No. 3 of 10 on the Moh's Hardness Scale) so it should be fairly easy to grind out a deeper hole. Take it slow and easy, keep it wet and cool, and protect yourself from the dust. I'll be interested to see the end result. I think it has great potential.
 
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