Boar's Hair Climbing Brush — Wood Handle
Boar's Hair Climbing Brush — Wood Handle
Boar's Hair Bristles, Rubberwood Handle
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- Solid rubberwood handle, laser-engraved — not plastic
- Natural boar's hair bristles
- 1" bristles across a 2½" head — clears a full hold in one pass
- 7½" overall, with a drilled hole for a clip or leash
- Scrubs off tick marks, chalk build-up, and rubber
- Gym, boulder, or crag — clip it to the pad and go
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A brush is only half the job. Add the chalk it was built for.
Description
Chalk build-up is why that hold feels worse than it did last week.
Real boar's hair bristles — stiff enough to pull caked chalk and skin out of the texture, soft enough that they won't polish holds the way stiff synthetic bristles can. One-inch bristles on a two-and-a-half-inch head, and a rubberwood handle that's engraved and drilled through the tail so it clips to a chalk bag, a brush stick, or a carabiner on your pack.
That hole is the part most brushes skip. Almost nothing in this category has a real one, which is why most brushes live loose in the bottom of a pack and get left at home.
Use it on
- Gym holds before you pull on — especially crimps and slopers, where chalk packs into the texture and kills the friction you're counting on.
- Outdoor problems, between burns.
- The inside of your own chalk bag, to knock the build-up off the lining.
About the handle
Rubberwood comes off the tree that produces natural latex. Plantations tap them for twenty-five to thirty years, and once the yield drops the trees come down — timber that used to be treated as waste. It's a real hardwood, and it means the handle didn't cost a forest.
Boar's hair, and why it matters outdoors
Brush as hard as you like on plastic. Outdoors, brush gently and stick to natural bristles — wire and hard synthetic brushes wreck soft rock like sandstone, and plenty of areas have rules about them for exactly that reason. Brush your tick marks and chalk off when you're done with a problem. That's often the difference between an area staying open and not.
Specs
- 7¼–7½ in overall length
- 2½ in bristle head, 1 in bristles
- Natural boar's hair on a rubberwood handle
- Drilled clip hole through the tail
Looking after it
Knocking it out after a session handles most of it. If the bristles need more than that, clean them damp rather than wet and keep the handle out of the water — rubberwood is a hardwood but not a waterproof one, and soaking it will raise the grain and eventually warp it. Never leave it standing in water, and let it dry fully before it goes back into a closed pack.
Designed, tested and shipped in Clearwater, Florida. Climber-owned, climber-tested.
