Hi I'm Kirby Allison founder of
The Hanger Project,
and here at The Hanger Project we love to
help the well-dressed take care of their wardrobes.
In today's video I'm going to be talking to you
about the importance of a proper pig
bristle shoeshine brush.
Now everyone thinks of a horsehair shoeshine
brush which is the most commonly available
shoeshine brush you have out there,
but a pig bristle brush is a great
addition to anyone that's really committed
to taking the best care possible of their
shoes.
Now, pig bristle
and horsehair although they look the
same really couldn't be
any more different.
And the reason is because a proper
pig bristle brush has a much stiffer
bristle than horse hair.
For any type of material that has
more texture in it,
like this pigskin loafer
or a hatch grain
or any type of shoe
with a lot of broguing you really
can benefit from a stiffer bristle
that is going to do a better job getting
into the shoe itself.
And so that's why I like to have two types
of brushes in my shoeshine kit:
a set of horsehair shoe shine brushes
and a set of pig bristle shoeshine brushes.
Now our new Hanger Project 100%
Pig Bristle Brush is made from
the absolute highest quality pig
bristle that is available in the
world
and you can really see the difference in
the quality in this brush
by not only how densely
our brushes are pinned,
but also by the flexibility of
the pig bristle itself.
This pig bristle is cut to 30
millimeters which is the absolute longest
pig bristle that you can find anywhere.
And what that allows,
whenever you compare to like,
our original pig bristle brush,
is it allows a more flexible
bristle that is going to do
a better job really getting into
the leather and cleaning it without
being too stiff.
The problem with the pig bristle brush
with a really short cut length
is that honestly the bristle is too
stiff
and so although it might be good for scrubbing
or cleaning dirt off of a shoe
it's really not appropriate for polishing any
type of fine leather just because it's too
stiff for that.
And so that's why I'm really happy
with their new pig bristle brush.
Again with this super high quality pig bristle,
you're going to get really great flexibility.
It's a really beautiful brush pinned to
a really high density
and it's a great compliment again
to a horse hair brush.
So this is our 100 percent pig bristle brush
and this right here is 100 percent
horsehair brush.
Now horsehair brushes here at The Hanger Project
are really special also because
we're having all of our horsehair brushes
made with a 100 percent tail hair
versus the more common mixture
of tail and mane hair.
Now that's important because the mane hair
is more brittle,
it's less expensive,
so any horsehair brush that prone
to a lot of shedding is a brush
that's been pinned
with that combination.
Our horsehair brushes here at the Hanger Project,
you're not going to experience any shedding
from, again because it's pinned
from 100 percent tail hair.
So although you may not be able to see it in this
video,
the flexibility
and softness of this horsehair
brush is much softer
and much more flexible than
with this pig bristle even though
they're pinned to the same cut lengths.
So two brushes,
they look almost exactly
identical,
but they couldn't be any more different.
Now our Hanger Project 100% Pig
Bristle Brush is available
with two different bristle colors,
a dark bristle
and a light bristle.
Now the reason that that's important is to
help you keep separate which brush
you're going to use for your dark polishes
and which brush you use for your light polishes.
Now the reason that that's important is because every
shoeshine brush is going to accumulate
residual polish as you're buffing the
shoe
and so you want to keep your brushes separate
because you don't want to take a brush that you
just used to buff a black polish
and then use it to buff a polish
off of a lighter colored shoe.
Because what you could end up
with is the streaking of those dark
polishes onto that lighter colored
shoe.
So we absolutely recommend
two brushes: one for your dark polishes
say your black,
your dark browns,
a green or a navy.
And then one for your lighter color polishes
like your browns,
your chestnuts,
and any other lighter
color. Our new Hanger
Project Pig Bristle Brush is something that I'm really proud
of again in order to achieve
that 30 millimeter cut length,
we had to use the absolute highest
quality pig bristle that available
anywhere in the world.
And so I'm completely confident
that you'll be happy
with this brush.
If you have any questions about pig bristle brushes
or how they're different from horsehair brushes
or when they're appropriate to be used,
please feel free to ask those in the comments
section below.
I get back to all those questions personally.
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I'm Kirby Allison,
founder of The Hanger Project,
and here at The Hanger Project,
we love helping the well-dressed take care of
their wardrobes.
Thanks for joining us.