Thread: What was your first shaving brush...

My first brush was a Colonel Conk badger, purchased in San Francisco in 1969. I still have it, and I use it
for face lathering with hard soaps. I'm amazed that it's lasted this long!

My first brush I got free packaged with a tube of Kaloderma shaving cream, I think, as a package, it was $2.49, the brush really was awful. But I used it with the cream and found it quite pleasing, I enjoyed building lather on my face and the nostalgia of it all.
It went on like that for a few weeks until I stumbled across a Dovo while shopping, not having thought of using a straight razor before that moment, I bought it and a strop. After a few noble attempts at shaving I wondered if I could find any info on line and typed Straight Razor into Google annd SRP was the first hit, it had all the info I needed, provided by people who vigorously wanted to help and was always respectful
That crappy free brush started me down a path I'd never before considered and I am thankful for that.

Van Der Hagen "Natural Bristle"

I bought my first brush and a puck of Williams about 30 years ago. My selection of brushes was limited to the crap on the drugstore shelf and the choice was usually limited to one. Most of those cheap boar brushes lasted 2 to 5 years. I had no idea better brushes (badger) existed until joining SRP. I bought one of the re-branded Crabtree and Evelyn $35 Edwin Jagger badger brushes and was shocked at how much better it was. I bought four more for future use and am still using the first one 7 years later. It's still in great shape, but part of that is due to it no longer being my only brush. This of course is also because of the influence of this forum.

A "cristal" brand, plastic handled, natural but unidentified bristle bought in Tunisia with a jam jar of the most refreshing shaving cream I have yet experienced (the brand name long ago lost in the mists of time). I still have the brush and will bring it out of retirement for a nostalgia shave with some palmolive cream which is a pale and anaemic reminder of that caustic but lovely Tunisian variety

here is my first brush. I'd guess its boar... It gets the job done but.... One of these days I'd love to get a nice knot of badger and turn my own.

A little lovely piggy Omega 10077

I have a $20 badger brush that came with my starter kit from the Classic Edge and a Kent K2 badger shaving brush...I like my classic edge brush far more. Guess I like shorter, stiffer knots that really dig into your lather and face...would have no idea what other brush would be like that...the Kent seems, as I've read here, a tad floppy.

Does a lather machine count? Is it odd I shaved with SR for 13 years before I purchased my first brush? Was an ever ready

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

Does a lather machine count? Is it odd I shaved with SR for 13 years before I purchased my first brush? Was an ever ready

Lather machine....I would think that's against the rules, oh wait, there are no rules....I guess the old fashioned hot lather machine would be a scuttle...darn...now I want to use my scuttle!