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    Senior Member Jack0458's Avatar
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    Does anyone trim the wild hairs on your brushes? I've been using a boar brush for 2-3 months and several hairs are beginning to stick out all over after it has dried. Not really a problem. Just wondering. I figured if I cut them off I'll cut them right at the handle. Any thoughts? Thanks.

    In case it matters I normally let the brush soak in very warm water for a minute or so before putting it in my soap jar to apply soap. When I'm done shaving I rinse it out real well with hot water, squeeze it real hard and hang it up, bristles down, to dry.

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    I wouldn't think there would be any harm in trimming the errant hairs down?

    I have never "SQUEEZED" mine out.
    Just flick/shake it out in the shower.

    I have a badger though so not sure if there would be a difference?
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    When too many hairs on my brushes get unruly, After use, rinsed and shaken out, I snugly wrap in a strip of paper towel and let dry in brush hanger. Unwrap and brush looks nearly new, even my broken in boars.
    Denis, Happiness is a BBS

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tallships View Post
    When too many hairs on my brushes get unruly, After use, rinsed and shaken out, I snugly wrap in a strip of paper towel and let dry in brush hanger. Unwrap and brush looks nearly new, even my broken in boars.
    Denis, Happiness is a BBS
    After strip on towel, i let it near the window ,on his handle but bristles up. NOT down because in this way it's simple for humidity go up.
    Remember don' use water too hot , my friend use almost boiling water but in this way the bristles of his brushes are "strange"
    "Consider well the seed that gave your birth: you were not made to lives as brutes,but to following virtue and knoweledge"
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