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NOTE:  This listing is for the brush handle only.  For a finished brush, please select a 26mm knot from the Premium, Standard or Synthetic selections in the Knots category listing.

The handle is shown with a 26mm knot for presentation purposes.

This brush features a handcrafted handle by Robert Quinn from Ancient Kauri, the World’s oldest workable wood.  New Zealand native Kauri trees that fell thousands of years ago are known simply as Ancient Kauri. The trees have been buried and preserved underground in swamps for more than 45,000 years.  Numerous independent radio carbon dating by world experts confirm that at more than 45,000 years old, the buried Ancient Kauri recovered in the far north of New Zealand is among the oldest of all Ancient Kauri found and certainly the oldest workable wood in the world… by a long, long way.  Ancient Kauri pre-dates the migration of Neanderthal man into North America, the hunt for mammoths and cave paintings in Europe. The Kauri forest was already buried some 25,000 years before the on-set of the last Ice Age giving scientists an important insight into Earths climatic past.

Handle height– 72mm

Socket size – 27mm