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    Default 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?

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    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?
    dave5225 and niftyshaving like this.

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    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

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

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    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.

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    About 12,000 in a 28mm knot.

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

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    I think it is fixable. Trim the knot end off till you can reach the base of the hair. when the ends are exposed use glue to bond the hair together. use a waterproof glue and make sure that all the hair ends are exposed. This should keep it from losing any more hair. We tie flies that resemble this type of shape with deer hair and that is how we attach it. The added glue on the end when the new handle is done will also help.

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    Of all the saddest words than can be said, none are sadder than these : My battery's dead !

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    Probably just buy some new gear and save yourself the headache, atleast you have a reason to buy a new brush!

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