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I Had a boar one that was owned by my father...
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I Had a boar one that was owned by my father...
my first brush was a VDH brush, not sure what it was made of. My second brush however was a knot from TGN, just the knot now handle lol, ended up deploying soon after I got it and didn't have time to make a handle but it still worked lol
Culmark Spartan, bought in 1975.
My first brush was my grandfathers old Gillette synthetic.
A terrible brush, thick nylon bristles, almost like fishing line, no water retention and scrubby as a hedgehog.
Still got it though, and use it once or twice a year, it was my gradfathers....
I got a 25$ pure badger (store brand from fendrihan) 20 months ago. Since then I got a cheap silvertip (also fendrihan store brand), a Semogue OC 2011 LE (finest badger & lots of backbone!) and a Plisson pure badger (still new in its box). And yet I still reach for the cheap pure badger almost every day...
Cheers.
A horse hair brush from ebay and if memory serves it cost $8. The fact i replaced it with a $16 badger hair brush a month later would likely give an indication as to how much I enjoyed it. I use the horsehair brush to apply chromium oxide powder to strips now which it does very well.
My first was a CM best badger.
Hofferitz in best,mid 70s,williams cutlery, palo alto Calif.
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. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
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 :w
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Preppie :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Birnando
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.
rs,
Tack
Mine was a VDH Boar, the Second a VDH Badger - I don't use either anymore, I make my own
My first brush was a VDH green handle boar, took a bit to break in. I now use a 24mm silver tip bought from SRD. I love it!
I occasionally used my dad's boar, a cheap Omega. I consider that my first brush, s I ended up using it regularly. Then I went can, because De Vergulde Hand shaving soap.
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
Attachment 156953 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
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop
Haha, when you are a barber lather machines spoil you and make you lazy (I add bay rum to the mix if I want it scented lol)
Like many have said already, my first brush was a VDH boar. My second was a Simpson Special Best Badger. What a difference that made. I still have the VDH but I don't use it. I am thankful for it; however, since it introduced me to the beauty of wet shaving.
Balea Pure Badger
