Thread: Brush Hair Maintenance

If you push down hard enough on the brush to splay the hair flat, you are bending the hair hard where it is glued into the handle. In the long run I doubt that is good for the hairs and can lead to them breaking off. As others have said, there is no need to do this even when loading from a hard puck or on your face when lathering.

Bob

Originally Posted by 32t

If you push down on the brush to hard the lather will be at the wrong end when you try to apply it to your face.

no Tim, all you have to do is drill a hole in the handle end for the soap to come out of Tc

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Back in the old days a two bander was a very special brush which came from a very limited area of the critter. With global warming badgers aren't producing those hairs any more. So now two bander doesn't mean much. It could be the way they trim the hair when making the knot or maybe the Manchurian Badgers which are the closest to the originals but really they aren't.

Just as an illustration the brush to the left is a Simpson old true 2 bander. The center one is a Thater Manchurian and the one on the right is a Kent standard Super Badger (pretty floppy).

That Thater Manchurian with the clear handle shows it's not mounted very deep. I'd think it would be a bit floppy too. Except its a Manchurian. I got a Manchurian too. Made by Elite. Cost me a pretty penny. Well, I thought it was expensive until I bout my Savemac. Mounted the Manchurian knot myself in a tall handle that way I got to set the loft myself.

No, the Thater is not floppy at all. Manchurian by nature is a pretty resilient hair not prone to floppyness. I have several by different makers and they are all on the stiff side. Not stiff like a pure badger but plenty of backbone.