Many times we are confronted with finding body hair or bucktail that is not as straight as we would want. I?m sure I haven?t discovered a new way to solve the problem but I?ve never seen it described before. So here goes.
1. As you would normally do, pull a bundle of hair squarely away from the hide to get the tips acceptably even. Clip the bundle and pull out the unwanted underfur.
2. Now, holding the tips of the bundle between your left thumb and forefinger similarly grasp the butts of the hair bundle between your right thumb and forefinger.
3. Here comes the neat part. Slowly roll each thumb against its matching finger as you would if rolling a homemade cigarette. When you do this you are rolling many of the individual hair fibers partway about its own axis so that they are not all bending in the same direction. Now, bending in opposing directions within the bundle of curved fibers, the bundle averages out as quite straight.
Try it. It works for me.