Helping A Badger Brush Become Softer?

[blantyre]

interesting that sandpaper was mentioned. I have a black badger knotted brush. Black is cut on the tips to shape the knot. It’s very scratchy when new. I spent 15-20 minutes whirling the tips around on 400 grit silicon carbide paper. This made the brush much softer at the tips. I haven’t looked at the magnified tips but I like to imagine that the spiky ends are now slightly rounded.

Of course, this method would ruin a high quality knot where the art is to have natural tips presented in a smooth fan or bulb knot.

 

[Burundian Hawk]

interesting that sandpaper was mentioned. I have a black badger knotted brush. Black is cut on the tips to shape the knot. It’s very scratchy when new. I spent 15-20 minutes whirling the tips around on 400 grit silicon carbide paper. This made the brush much softer at the tips. I haven’t looked at the magnified tips but I like to imagine that the spiky ends are now slightly rounded.

Of course, this method would ruin a high quality knot where the art is to have natural tips presented in a smooth fan or bulb knot.

I have pure badgers...You don't suppose that i should sandpaper one of them... On the other hand 20 minutes of rubbing in against a sandpaper isn't very appealing. But you never know! I might do it one day!

 

[Big Jim]

I have pure badgers...You don't suppose that i should sandpaper one of them... On the other hand 20 minutes of rubbing in against a sandpaper isn't very appealing. But you never know! I might do it one day!

Try if you want, but the one I tried with didn't make any difference. I pulled the knot out and replaced it with a High Mountain knot and never looked back.

 

[Burundian Hawk]

Try if you want, but the one I tried with didn't make any difference. I pulled the knot out and replaced it with a High Mountain knot and never looked back.

I am in no hurry to try, but you never know... I am accustomed to pure badgers, they don't create me any skin issues like i have read to other people. Someone who was born under the tropical African sun, has a very resilient skin, i assure you! I see them as a way to have badger variety. If i shave everyday with silvertip, i will get bored of it.

 

[Omega48]

Does it feel like single hairs are poking or is the whole surface scratchy?

Is there anything that can be done if instead it is the first case ("like single hairs are pocking")?

 

[Multum in parvo]

Is there anything that can be done if instead it is the first case ("like single hairs are pocking")?

If it is a single one (upside down with the root poking you) isolate it and cut it from the knot as deep as you can. Happened to me with a Zenith Manchurian. If there are more than one than you have to learn to love it… Which brush is the culprit?

 

[Phoenixkh]

I know some people are confident that badgers are the way they are at first use. I don't have any 3 band silvertips. All my badgers are either "high mountain" two-bands (SV and Zenith) or ShaveMac Two-band Silvertips. All of them got or are getting better after using them. The SV's peaked at around 12 uses. I'm up to 4 uses on the brushes Rudy reknotted for me... and they are improving with each use. Not night and day improvements... small, but identifiable, incremental changes. They get just a bit softer, but still retain that gentle scrub I enjoy in a brush.

 

[Hu3ir0 Hu3Hu3]

If there are more than one than you have to learn to love it

if you have two you can do the same

 

[Multum in parvo]

if you have two you can do the same

The missing part was …not obviously upside down…
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