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Hi
I found some wn series 7 sizes 1,3,4,6 (used) for 30$ and i think it worth it
But brushes lost their sharp point and seems messed up
Do you think can i fix them with gum arabic or they are useless?
Picture of the brushes
https://ibb.co/hu7bxT
You can give them a hair cut, but the thing that makes a kolinsky a kolinsky, is the tips of each hair, which helps hold onto the water. Though they look like simple hairs, there are tiny protuberances at the tips which only happen with natural hair. When brushes are made, the hairs are found which are the exact size needed, they are never cut to size, but used as is.
By cutting the tips off, you are in effect removing these special ends on the tips.
But if the brush is worn, it has already lost the tips where it comes to a point, you would be removing the tips around that. So it’s kind of a moot point, you might as well see what you can make happen via a hair cut, but I would just think of these brushes as “sables”, which is the term for the better hairs which don’t come from siberia.
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It is not unusual for natural hair brushes when dry to look bushy. The test is to wet the brush then with an arm motion from the elbow flick the brush and it should point nicely. I have several Kolinsky brushes that when dry are bushy, but when wet are perfectly pointed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjXilXccEgM
Cheap Joes video on restoring the shape of natural hair brushes with shampoo and hair gel.
Have you tried snapping them to see if they’ll come to a point? I have some travel brushes that are part sable and part something else. They look bushy after they’re dry but they’re good when they’re wet.
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