Thread: What was your first shaving brush...

Hofferitz in best,mid 70s,williams cutlery, palo alto Calif.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Hofferitz in best,mid 70s

Ditto, a Hoiffritz @ $80.00 in 1972 or '73. Down Miami at either the Midway Mall down south or maybe the Westland Mall up at 103rd st and I-95 ....... can't remember which. Used that brush for thirty years. Mostly with a bar of Ivory or Dove in the palm of my hand and face lathered. Moved along since then.

A simpson Persian Jar 2 in Silver tip badger.
Bought it from SRD some 4+ years ago, and it is still one of my favs.

Mine was a Men-U Premium Synthetic, which moulted enough for me to purchase another one.

... which also moulted badly.

Art of shaving badger. Have no idea on size or details.

It was a no-name silvertip badger, bought on sale from an Internet-based shaving store. It had zero backbone, and I finally had to wrap a 1/4" cable tie around it... my "pornstar" shaving brush

Originally Posted by Birnando

A simpson Persian Jar 2 in Silver tip badger.
Bought it from SRD some 4+ years ago, and it is still one of my favs.

Preppie

my first brush was and still is boar. I still use the one I started with . My dad and I shared the brush and later went to the can foam. then I started back with the brush.

My first brush was a VDH, then afterwards my next brush was a Tweezerman.

Brush number one was an Eveready 150 bought along with my first straight as a youngster in 1975. My dad thought I was nuts since he had "moved up" to Mr. Schick's Monstrosity but I stuck with it. That was my only brush for several years and remained in rotation for about thirty years. Then one winter I left it at the lake house and some sort of critter ate the bristles! In my disgust, I threw it away. In retrospect I wish I'd saved the handle. I could put a nice super silvertip two band in it today and have the softness of badger and the backbone of the boar along with the nostalgia of that first brush.


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