My Simpsons Chubby 3 Super is ~4 years old and it loses 3–4 hairs every time I shave. I don't use it that often and it still has a huge knot, so there is no need for me to get it fixed. But I might notice the difference eventually, which has prompted me to do some quantitative predicting! If I use it 20 times a year, how long will it take for it to lose one-third of its hair?
George
How many hairs are there in a Chubby 3 brush?
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Vulfix will Replace for Free
I had a C1Best that shed. When I read in this Forum that Vulfix was replacing shedders without charge, I sent mine in with a letter that stated that it had shed quite a few hairs and that I was concerned. Two weeks later a new C1B showed up that is as good or better than the pre-Vulfix Chubby.
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I had the same problem, but got around it by tying a small paper tag to each hair with its own individual number on it. Voila, problem solved!rustyblade wrote:drP wrote:There would be about 15000 bristles in an average knot so it seems...
I started to count them once but lost count after bristle 3,167. Besides, I other important things to do like watching some paint dry.
Jim
I keep shaving stuff in our office bathroom and the girls think my shaving brushes are an anachronistic throwback on my part like my insistence on writing with a fountain pen. Lori has been around long enough that her baby, whose diapers I changed, is now in college and taller than me.
I clicked on this on this thread mid day and when she brought me lunch saw I was on my shaving board. She asked "what are ya'll talking about?" I said we're counting the number of hairs in a shaving brush.
Without missing a beat she said "you guys are f....ing nuts"
I clicked on this on this thread mid day and when she brought me lunch saw I was on my shaving board. She asked "what are ya'll talking about?" I said we're counting the number of hairs in a shaving brush.
Without missing a beat she said "you guys are f....ing nuts"
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Not sure that the OP's question was authoritatively answered, but I can believe there are more than a thousand hairs in a typical badger knot. Fifteen thousand sounds incredibly high.
Has anybody ever seen an estimate of the number of hairs in a man's beard? I'd guess no more than a thousand.
Has anybody ever seen an estimate of the number of hairs in a man's beard? I'd guess no more than a thousand.
Porter
Here's an answer...
From the same page on the Shavemac website:
"The diameter and the weight of the materials for the brush head required are initially determined through the borehole of the brush handle. For example, approximately 14 grams of badger hair are needed for a 21 mm diameter.
The badger hair required is weighed using precision scales with weights upwards of 0.1 g. Incidentally, one gram of badger hair is made up of approximately 1000 hairs."
From the same page on the Shavemac website:
"The diameter and the weight of the materials for the brush head required are initially determined through the borehole of the brush handle. For example, approximately 14 grams of badger hair are needed for a 21 mm diameter.
The badger hair required is weighed using precision scales with weights upwards of 0.1 g. Incidentally, one gram of badger hair is made up of approximately 1000 hairs."
Peter