Really basic brush question

IMHO -
I buy and play a lot of records - probably 15 or 20 a day, so I have some experience.
These carbon fiber brushes are useless, and possibly harmful. I have tried a couple of brands, including the "grounded" type and the expensive "combo" one with the fabric center strip and they all leave that line of dust - and often Broken pieces of carbon fiber if you look closely. Not satisfactory!

Like HiFiHarv, I use the good 'ol Discwasher brush (after cleaning with either Disc Doctor or Nitty Gritty systems first, of course).

However, the methods in the instructions supplied with the Discwasher don't really work!

The key is to wet the brush lightly, but EVENLY, and to also pre-perk the fibers so they are standing "upright" BEFORE the brush hits the record. This is all accomplished by placing a light line of distilled water across the whole length, near the front of the brush, and then (with your hands clean!) rubbing it back across the fibers in the direction which is "against the grain" of the fibers. This wets and raises the fibers so they'll really dig into the grooves. The damp fibers leave virtually no dust behind!
It's important to wait until any water left on the lp evaporates before playing.

Try this method and you'll throw those carbon brushes away!

I respectfully disagree with Fgj. I've tried Hunts and AQ's every which way and they just doesn't work thoroughly. Think about the logic of the Hunt - since you definitely DO need the middle velvet pad to pick up the piles of dust which the carbon fibers leave behind (which, BTW, it doesn't do nearly as well as a DiscWasher) - Then what exactly were the carbon fibers actually doing, that the velvet alone wouldn't have done in the first place?

The carbon fiber brush is like a good broom, but without a dustpan. The DiscWasher is like a wet mop. Now ask yourself which is more thorough - a broom with no dustpan, or a wet mop?

I suppose you can make a case that if you want to do it really right - use the broom and then the mop!

Oops, hit send before I was done -

That makes the Hunt brush the right idea, but it's too poorly executed to be of value. The relative vertical placement of the carbon fibers and the velvet is wrong, the nap length of the velvet is inadequate, and unlike the DiscWasher it's velvet portion is completely flat and non-directional so it doesn't "catch" the dust.