Boar Brush Break in QUICK!

Well if it was my comment about just using it then I step forward!
However I'm not sure who the OP was miffed at. P.

I thought it might have been me, but I checked and I had not responded to the OP. Oh well, I suppose some of us are sensitive or good at excluding ourselves or both. I thought "middle school" is an American term so I am guessing he may hail from across the pond not that I want to denigrate our American cousins but he maybe better off on that bed and breakfast forum with lots of rules...
 
Using a Dremel does seem a bit extreme. It might work but who knows what damage has been done to the bristles. I gave mine a few wet/dry cycles using a hair dryer on cold setting. That gets the tips splitting nicely. Splitting tips isn't the whole story with boar though, they still benefit from use after that. The hair dryer trick does speed it along a bit though. Bare in mind Semogue boar are very fine hair to begin with.
 
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I am now endeavouring to ascertain which one of you was a "clown" and who asserted a "middle school mentality" was "adolescent" and "prattled" in their response to the OP, but I just can't determine who it was; can that member step forward :)
It should have been me with my remark that the best way to break a boar brush is with an axe.
Or:
Live is too short to break in a boar brush. No matter how quickly you do it.
Or by pointing the OP to the Welcome Forum for a nice, polite introduction.

But, alas! I saw this thread too late.
 
Can't you just break it in, as you use it, on your facial stubble ?

I have a Progress Vulfix 404 mixed badger / boar brush and, as i recall, that only took a couple of goes to bed in ?
 
i just bought a Yaqi Tuxedo Synthetic and... it's very different... but i do like it.

Slightly weird feeling compared to natural hair, but it does the job just fine - you just have to use it slightly differently.
 
That's the key to using synthetics. Avoid comparing them to badgers and enjoy them for the unique awesome performers they are.

But one cannot help but compare, especially if he succumbs to the hype surrounding the über-expensive badger brushes and wants to try one. The latest gen. of synthetic brushes just flat out work better IMHO. Cheaper (usually), no break in period, will practically lather concrete and one can select any level of "scritch" from sadistic to BBS.
 
But one cannot help but compare, especially if he succumbs to the hype surrounding the über-expensive badger brushes and wants to try one. The latest gen. of synthetic brushes just flat out work better IMHO. Cheaper (usually), no break in period, will practically lather concrete and one can select any level of "scritch" from sadistic to BBS.
Don't forget their excellent drying time as well
 
But one cannot help but compare, especially if he succumbs to the hype surrounding the über-expensive badger brushes and wants to try one. The latest gen. of synthetic brushes just flat out work better IMHO. Cheaper (usually), no break in period, will practically lather concrete and one can select any level of "scritch" from sadistic to BBS.

Not much for shedding as well, unless you're unlucky enough to get a defective knot. Synths can be prone to a 'doughnut' forming, but it happens for animal hair brushes too.

One small gripe of mine for synths, is the majority of brushes seem to be the on the larger side of things, generally all 24mm/26mm plus, and the actual measurements of the knots (eg like with Yaqi) are a few mm's more whilst a Omega advertised as a 24mm knot, will be 24mm.
 
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