Compact Styling Hair Brush

First things first. To print this, you'll need three different kinds of filament: (1) Something rigid like PLA or PETG; (2) Something extremely flexible like TPU or FlexPLA; and (3) Nylon.

There is a design of styling hairbrush that was popular in the 80's through the early 2000's, but which is becoming increasingly difficult to find. The brush component of these brushes consisted of nylon bristles held in place by a typically latex holder that was folded in such a way as to give the bristles good spacing and a reasonable amount of "give" when in use.

For some reason, this style of hairbrush has become increasingly difficult to locate, so I decided to design my own for 3D printing.

In order to have the right amount of "give" while still remaining sufficiently stiff and slick, the bristles are printed in nylon. I don't think there's any reasonable substitute for this, but if you have good luck with some other material, please leave a comment.

In addition to needing a certain