Hello, all, I'm back after a long absence with what I suspect may be a very dumb question.

I fairly recently got a new brush on sale, nothing fancy but an upgrade for me--a Parker badger, fairly stiff (which I like) and a lot denser and larger than I was used to.

Now there is the matter of sizing a stand for it.

The usual practice is to slide the brush into the stand where the hair meets the handle. But wouldn't this tend to abrade and loosen the hair, at least where it's touching the stand? To me, it seems to make more sense to get (or make) a stand that would hold the handle itself at its "waist." Or am I missing something obvious?

Rich