Two customs from MYCarver (Pic heavy)

First is a brush styled after the Simpson Eagle/88. I had planned to put a 24mm SuperSilvertip in it, but when it got here, it was too pretty for that knot. I had to install one of my last two UK Silvertips (SimFix Chubby 1 knot), making it an Eagle G3 "Silvertip" (most likely Simpson's 3 band Super).






Then a brush styled after the Simpson Snowman in a butterscotch that Mark custom made.


A quick palm lather/wash in Williams.





And at last the bloomed magnificence.





I can't imagine either brush looking better or either handle/knot finding a more perfect pairing. In both cases, they look like they were made for eachother.

WOW thats a hell of a nice Eagle! I love the snowman too, but wow...the eagle

Just another shot of the handles. I love Ian's photos.These are just before they were shipped ( The knots are for the photo's only)

That Eagle is Awesome. If I sent you the wood could you turn one for me? I would send you enough wood that you can make 2 handles, one for you and one for me let me know how big a piece you need. I can set my own knot so all I would need is the handle.

Very nice brushes you had made by mycarver Ian!

Beautiful...I really like the eagle version

I keep coming back to the thread and ogling the pictures... then I remember something, turn my head a few degrees right and start smiling.

Nice looking brushes! I have a weakness for handcrafted brushes and those look awesome.

Wow I love the wooden handle.. what kind of wood is that?

Pretty neat I say

A friend of mine has a mill in Africa and he gives me samples of a variety of woods. This the locals called Cay-cay. I'm not sure of the exact species but it has characteristics of Mahogany. There is a white mahogany I have used that is very close to this.
But this as you can see is spalted giving it that wonderful variations. I have about 6 ft. left of this board.

I love spalted wood, I recently stumbled into some spalted maple just beautiful stuff.

Great stuff!

Jwhite,
Yes, these spaltes woods are beautiful. I too just picked up some Spalted Maple for other handles.
Just remember , the spalting is from fungus and the dust can create problems.
Mark

Loric said:

WOW thats a hell of a nice Eagle! I love the snowman too, but wow...the eagle

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+1! Ian, that Eagle is Stunning! Very nice!

Ken

kbuzbee said:

+1! Ian, that Eagle is Stunning! Very nice!

Ken

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I have a couple of brushes from mycarver, and he does really nice work. He did a knock-off of a Rooney Victorian that is just great. Knots on the brushes are not shedders and feel really nice on the face.

OMG, Ian's gone "fake" butterscotch....

Oh the pain ......

( Besides that lovely brushes by Ian and Mark )

i like that Eagle handle. the shape looks like it would be so comfortable.

Very nice brushes

Beautiful Just Beautiful!!