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by brothers » Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:07 am
Tim, knowing what we currently know, I'd certainly ask the maker of the handle to consider a finish that doesn't disappear after only a few weeks of use in wet soapy conditions as mine did. I presume a woodworker making and selling expensive handles has wood-turning and airbrushing equipment and experience that would have made my project completely unnecessary. I have neither the equipment nor the training that applying a properly durable and beautiful cyanoacrylic finish would entail, and as a result I had to improvise with extensive pre-planning and care. Thank goodness it was successful.
The replacement brush head is called SynBad. I bought it from apshaveco.com.
The only equipment I had was a variable speed (very slow speed turning) electric drill and a bench vise. Rube Goldberg would have been proud of my contraption. Since I do not own a lathe (required to apply the finish to the spinning handle), I had to invent a way to have the drill holding onto the handle and turning it very slowly in mid-air while I applied the liquid CA onto the turning handle with small squares of paper shop towels. It dries in about 2 seconds. Breathing apparatus (I had a professional facemask that I have used in the past while painting cars) is mandatory as are a boxful of suitable rubber gloves. That stuff including the molecules floating in the air as it is applied and as it dries will literally kill our lungs, eyes, and noses, and glue our hands and fingers (and rubber gloves) to whatever they might touch. I had to buy the CA and the Accelerator on Amazon.
I found a gold mine of information on YouTube, specifically several posts of Cap'n Eddie Castelin, a woodturning lathe master craftsman from Louisiana. I think he may be deceased, but his wisdom is available. I watched the ones about finishing with CA a number of times and made some good notes on what to do and what to avoid.
Gary
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