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Posted by Pogonip on August 19, 2006, 1:57 pm
Kate Dicey wrote:
> This is only vaguely sewing related. I was thinking about hairbrushes
> on Thursday, and looked up my best hairbrush on the web. It's made by
> Kent and today would cost me £114 to replace! It's hand made, has brass
> screws in the back/handle, and comes in a box like a bit of jewellery!
> by gum, at that price it ought to have GOLD screws and a safe! ;)
> Anyway, I was fed up with me plastic detangling brush snapping bits off,
> and my favourite detangler died the other week, so I ordered one of
> Kent's Woody Hog brushes: a detangler with a carved wooden handle and
> wooden pins in a cushion rather than plastic spines that trap and snap
> the hair. I also ordered a hand made wide tooth comb for my swimming
> bag. They arrived today! :) Very nice lady on the phone, too. She
> steered me in the direction of the right detangler for my Hagrid Hair!
> (Long, fine, thick, and curly! ARGH!! My hair could eat ships, never
> mind destroy hairbrushes!)
>
> Right! Now I can detangle my newly washed hair in record time, tie it
> up out of the way, and fail miserably to sew it into the customer
> garment or chop bits off with the serger! For anyone interested, not
> all their brushes are insanely expensive, but I can attest to their
> durability: both my remaining ones (the third was nicked many moons ago)
> are over 20 years old and still doing well. A decent detangler will
> ensure they last even longer! NAYY - just an occasional but long-term
> very satisfied customer.
Finally, something good about having straight,
absolutely-refuses-to-wave-even, hair. When long, it could be used for
watch springs. Now, I take a photo of Judy Dench to the haircutter and
tell them to make me look like that. They get the hair OK, but the
rest.......well....still looks like me. I can comb it with my fingers.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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