"Recycled" Vent Pick and Pan Brush.

[Rick Sheets]

I do a fair bit of junking and came across an old cuckoo clock chain. (It was a cheap, plated chain so it had no value.)

I took some horse hair from a donor drafting brush and an unplated jumbo paper clip and made this pan brush and pick. The ferrule is one of the bells from a lamp harp that is crimped to hold it all together.
Looks oldish and right to me, but I am not that PC.

Rick

[KennyC]

eco friendly recycling  thanks for sharing

[Collector]

I think that all of us love to see, lust after and even covet, the crisp and high-art pieces.  But there is a real and certain charm in these homemade, common man pieces that captures and speaks to our singular American experience. 

Put that brush and pick set with an iron-mounted Appalachian/TN longrifle or a PA barn gun/Schimmel, a homemade horn and bag and it's right at home.

Well done and thanks for sharing it and those little build/part 'details,' that photos, by themselves, just don't.   

[ncbandedhorns]

very slick mr rick...look good on a bag for a gillespie rifle..

[smorrison]

Rick,
The brush and chain look ok to me.  I'm not an expert on the periods of chains, but that type of clock and the weight chains were around...
Scott