Thread: Brush differences

I wanted to bring this thread to closure. I like to do that in case someone searches and find this 5 years from now

This brush has broken in BUT I have definitely noticed that I had to lighten up on the brush strokes. My silvertip is alot softer and can tolerate a much harder stroke. With this new brush I have to lighten up and use only the brush tips. Have a good one!

An update on this one: After reading this thread, I dug into the offending brush in earnest, and managed, through brute force over a week or so, to get it to spread out and looking like a normal brush. It's been working fine since, and so I am not going to store it in the tube, pressed it back into the tight little bundle that didn't work so well before.

Originally Posted by mdarnton

I'm shamefully new and inexperienced at this, but here's something very general I've noticed about the brushes I have: the ones that hold together tighter in more of a rod don't lather up as well as the ones that spread out. One particularly irritating example is a travel brush that is stored in a tight tube. I haven't used it much, and I think I'm going to have to use it until it starts to spread out, and not keep it packed in the tube--as it is now, it doesn't work at all. On the other hand, I have a $3 horse brush, wide and loose with lots of internal space, that's a maniac foam machine.

So maybe some break-in is in order?