This handmade brush has a 21 mm Black badger knot set at a loft of 53 mm. Sekelbos is a very hard local hardwood species that has flowing grain in deeper red and brown colours, the white resin part accentuates the year rings and mirrors the pattern/rings of the wood.
The brush stands 132 mm tall, has a waist of 24 mm and a belly of 38 mm. The brush weighs 103 grams.
We have used salt to create the effect of a 'disorderly honeycomb' adding a new dimension of grip and texture and giving the brush a very distinct appearance.
We obtain the salt from www.Oryxsdesertsalt.co.za, who harvests it from the Kalahari region where the salt is a ever-replenishing, renewable source. This source was discovered beneath a 50 km2 salt pan where three underground streams converge and replenish an ancient underground salt lake of 55 million tons from which the salt water is deposited into pans under the hot Kalahari sun and sun-dried. This process lives in harmony with the natural rainfall and the surrounding environment, wisely they only extract what nature provides. Did you know there is a 90% chance you are consuming salt with plastics in it? Read this and reconsider changing to 'Oryx' for the benefit of yourself and also the environment, their online service is top notch, even before I started using their salt in brushes I bought buckets from them that lasted me years!