Results 1 to 8 of 8
Like Tree4Likes
  • 1 Post By BobH
  • 2 Post By Wayne1963
  • 1 Post By Steel

Thread: Boar break in

  1. #1
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2017
    Location
    Chandler, AZ
    Posts
    183
    Thanked: 20

    Default Boar break in

    Whats the best way to break in a Boar brush?

  2. #2
    Senior Member blabbermouth
    Join Date
    Mar 2012
    Location
    Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    17,250
    Thanked: 3221

    Default

    For me, it is use it every day for 2 to 3 weeks till the tips flag/split.

    Bob
    Steel likes this.
    Life is a terminal illness in the end

  3. #3
    The Hurdy Gurdy Man thebigspendur's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2005
    Location
    New Mexico
    Posts
    32,736
    Thanked: 5016
    Blog Entries
    4

    Default

    yep Bob's right.

    Of course you can do gentle stroke after stroke for hours on end on a hard surface with a wet brush.
    No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero

  4. #4
    Senior Member Wayne1963's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2013
    Location
    South Carolina, USA
    Posts
    1,181
    Thanked: 162

    Default

    Make lathers several times a day, either in your palm or in a bowl. Put the brush in front of a fan between lathers, to speed up drying. Rinse and repeat.

    This process will also get your technique with the brush dialed in quickly.
    Last edited by Wayne1963; 12-27-2017 at 06:33 AM.
    Steel and outback like this.

  5. #5
    Senior Member blabbermouth outback's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2015
    Location
    Akron, Ohio
    Posts
    11,924
    Thanked: 4300

    Default

    All sounds good. But I did it like Wayne said, and it does help you to learn how your brushes react to the use of hard soaps to creams, and face lathering to bowl lathering, more water less water, ect.
    I have found that some of my brushes suck for face lathering, and others for bowl lathering. Some, work great for both.

    Just go play with it.! It'll take ya a year to wear out a puck of soap, doing that alone. Its a good way for breaking in your brush, and to learn how it reacts to your soaps, and preferred method.
    Mike

  6. #6
    Member Badgerstate's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2017
    Location
    Columbus, OH
    Posts
    35
    Thanked: 5

    Default

    Just use it. Its going to take about 6 or 8 shaves to break it in and while you could simply palm later with it over and over really what makes the hairs split and makes it feel soft is the cycle of soaking, lathering and drying; which you cant really simulate.

  7. #7
    Senior Member captainhx's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2015
    Location
    https://t.me/pump_upp
    Posts
    209
    Thanked: 18

    Default

    Here's a faster way to break in a boar by mantic59

  8. #8
    Senior Member blabbermouth Steel's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Posts
    2,321
    Thanked: 498

    Default

    I prefer to leave it in cold water for 3 days, then use daily and it just gets better and better. When I tried adding rubbing on a towel to the mix it just seemed to beat up the brush more than anything including breaking bristles. I have tried everything including rubbing on a towel, using a hair dryer to speed dry, Palm lathering, among a few but have found that daily use is the best way and the cold water trick jump starts it all pretty good.
    SpeedyPC likes this.
    What a curse be a dull razor; what a prideful comfort a sharp one

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •