Breaking in a Tweezerman

[DaveNJ74]

The Tweezerman is a nice little brush and the price is right but is there a way to break it in other than to just use the hell out of it?

[bears12th]

The Tweezerman is a nice little brush and the price is right but is there a way to break it in other than to just use the hell out of it?

Dave,

I found this link to be VERY helpful and informative. Good luck with the Tweezerman, I like mine.:thumbup1:


http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=139297

[StreetGlide Steve]

I've been using a Tweezerman off and on for about 6 months I really like it, it does get softer and is an excellent brush for the price, it is a bit scruffy but I like that, don't give up on it.

[DaveNJ74]

Dave,

I found this link to be VERY helpful and informative. Good luck with the Tweezerman, I like mine.:thumbup1:


http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=139297

Thanks for the link, I just washed the brush with Dawn and now soaking it. Im going to lather it up tonight and let it sit overnight and give it a try out tomorrow morning for the shave.

[Big Kev]

I used the dawn soap and lather it up and leave it over night method. It did soften up the brush and got rid of the new badger stink. I really like the little brush and I am very happy I bought it. Good luck. :thumbup1:

[DaveNJ74]

Thank you for all the replies. Here is what I did. I soaked it in the blue dawn for several hours last night while I did work around the house, water the lawn etc. I then washed the soap out and shook it dry.
I then made a lather with Castle Forbes Lavender, made a nice loft of lather on the Tweezerman brush and let it sit over night until I got up this morning.
The lather was gone and there was a little dry foam in the brush. I then washed it out, soaked it in warm water and used it to shave this morning.
It did soften the brush up a lot but what I have noticed with the badger knot the Tweezerman comes with is that it seems there is in the center of the knot a rock solid area coming up through the middle that my other 3 brushes dont have. Does that make any sense to anyone out there?

[Slash McCoy]

but what I have noticed with the badger knot the Tweezerman comes with is that it seems there is in the center of the knot a rock solid area coming up through the middle that my other 3 brushes dont have. Does that make any sense to anyone out there?

That helps spread the bristles out and helps the brush hold more water. You see that on a lot of cheaper brushes.

[Go West Young Man]

I didn't think that Tweezerman's needed any breaking in - mine was good to go right out of the box.

[DavidP]

I didn't think that Tweezerman's needed any breaking in - mine was good to go right out of the box.

Same here, it wasn't smelly or offensively scrubby out of the box. Been using mine daily since November and it's still kicking.

[Deltaboy]

I washed mine with dish soap and hot water in a bowl then rinced it and coated it with hair conditioner and let it set over nite then I rinsed it out and put it to work.

I use it most of the times.