Thread: My brush fell apart

As the title says. I don't mind too much because I was unhappy with it anyway. The handle is a bit small for me and the thing sheds like an old dog in the summer. I've had it about a month and it loses at least a dozen hairs each time I use it. You can see a couple sticking out the top ready to go in the pic.

I guess I'll make a new handle, but is there anything I can do the cut down the shedding? Any sort of glue I can add to the base of the knot that might bind those loose hairs? At the moment the bottom and the sides are covered in glue, I was thinking cut away what's on the bottom and reglue it, something runny that will penetrate the knot a bit. Any suggestions?

I don't believe there is any fix for a badger with the mange, so instead of turning a handle for that knot why not just buy a good knot from TGN?

Use it until it's no longer usable. I'm not sure what you could do to fix it. I'd order a new knot, and make the handle. Nothing like new gear

I hope my Tweezerman brush was friend of yours and it also will suicide after friends death)))

I had a high end brush that never lost a hair. I took a few bowls of triple milled English soaps that were almost gone and ran the pieces through a cheese grater to fill one bowl. The resulting mix , plus some water, went together well enough but had a bit of a pebble grain to it. I whipped up some lather with that mix and from that day on the brush began to lose hair just like yours. Five to ten every time I used it.

This went on for over a year and I used the brush fairly often. It finally stopped shedding and if you were to look at it you'd never know it shed at all. Say that to say, there are an awful lot of bristles in the average shaving brush.

About 12,000 in a 28mm knot.

I'm just one of those guys who hates to throw things away if they're fixable. Guess this isn't.

At the cost of appearing too pedestrian for this site; I find that the inexpensive Chinese badger brushed on eBay are an excellent buy. We're taking 10$ range. also good are the turkish horse hair from bestshave.com 6$ range. Develop a rotation and experience all three types : boar, badger and horse then move up the price range.

Originally Posted by thuktunflishithy

As the title says. I don't mind too much because I was unhappy with it anyway. The handle is a bit small for me and the thing sheds like an old dog in the summer. I've had it about a month and it loses at least a dozen hairs each time I use it. You can see a couple sticking out the top ready to go in the pic.

I guess I'll make a new handle, but is there anything I can do the cut down the shedding? Any sort of glue I can add to the base of the knot that might bind those loose hairs? At the moment the bottom and the sides are covered in glue, I was thinking cut away what's on the bottom and reglue it, something runny that will penetrate the knot a bit. Any suggestions?

Sounds to me like you just got a defective brush and it would be worth your while to just start over. We've got some fine artisans here who can fix you up in a jiffy and at a good price.

Epoxy is your friend.