Thread: How would you do it?

I'd just snip the tips off squirrel tails, sun dry and bam...easy shave brush.

What a crazy place it would be. Dennis gone squirrely, bear wrestling and hunting all types of animals and the whole while Bruno running around without his thong!

Brings to mind HarryWally lathering with a ferret's tail a while back.
Old Ferretface!

Bunny tails would feel nice on the skin also

I would use hair from the tail of a whitetail deer. It was used for many applications by Native Americans and settlers alike. I would wrap it all tightly in sinew, which sticks well when wet. I would coat that in pitched pine for water proofing. The handle part could literally be almost anything, but I'm thinking a thick piece of bamboo or cane would be easy - no drilling. Or, if available, I might also try a piece of sumac (not the poison variety) because it is pithy in the middle and easy hollowed. Of course there is bone, but that stinks.

I'll have to rethink this one then.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Have had 3 ridgebacks,great Dawgs,but being hounds they have no fur longer than 1/8 inch.

I'd scratch my head then sail for France:
The modern shaving brush may be traced to France during the 1750s. The French call a shaving brush blaireau or "badger."[1] Quality of these brushes differed greatly, as materials used to fashion the handles varied from the common to the exotic. It was not uncommon for handles to be made of ivory, gold, silver, tortoise shell, crystal, or porcelain. Wikipedia

Hey what good is a shaving brush without shaving soap?

Hold the phone: A rudimentary form of shaving cream was documented in Sumer around 3000 BC. This substance combined wood alkali and animal fat and was applied to a beard as a shaving preparation. Wikipedia again

Well, if I knew nothing about hair or critters, but knew I needed something to apply soap to my face to shave with, I might try drying out some moss, clumping it together tightly, and using some leather to bind it to a short piece of wood.

How long would it last? Who knows, but I'm sure there would be lots of moss to replace it with....

It might be easier to make it out of this... Smelly but easier to wrestle.

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Is this the original Avon, novelty cologne dispenser