Thread: Boar Brushes

Originally Posted by sharptonn

So to the gospel I share with you fellows. It is great to wash out your brush after use, squeeze it good. hang her to dry.
I begin with a dry brush, nice and dry. Was cleaned out good after last use. Needs a bit of fluffing, I suppose.
In using tubs and pucks, a bit of water on them for 15 minutes, if you can spare it. Creams, just go at it adding a tad of water here and there til right.
Pour off all water, dip the tips of the brush in hot water and stir. Dip the tips as you feel necessary, but keep the mixture 'rich'.
Keep the water to the minimum, yet add some. Fill the brush with lather, not water?
Why soak a brush? Use it's best characteristics. Soaking one makes for a floppy mess, IMO.

I'll second that motion.
As you've told me.
Easy to add, hard to get out ( water)

Well,

I have been following this thread with interest, so many different views. I have decided that I have found my ideal brush (cheap hollow handle aside), which strangely enough is one that I had always used before straight razor shaving. An Omega Boar (49, I think)

I had tried various Badgers in the past and found them too soft/floppy. I then did the rounds of brushes again, the best of the badgers I tried seemed to be the Thater SRP edition from 2011.

I am once again almost exclusively and contentedly using the Omega again, soaked for a few minutes, I haven't found anything better.

I'm also sure that this opinion will change again.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Never tried a boar brush,probebly never will,but I am a big fan of Bacon and pork loin roasts

Now that's funny right there

My 30 mm boar brush from Whipped Dog came today. Wow, it is stiff! I know it will break in and soften, so I think I'm going to switch to soap for a while to help that process along.

I'll have to let it dry bristles up since it doesn't fit in any of my brush holders.

I like my Boar brushes, I have the SOC and omega's I like the Omegas a bit more, I still throw my badgers in the rotation each week.

Tried the 30 mm brush. Found it difficult to sufficiently load with soap, probably because the brush is so large.

Despite the stiffness of the bristles, I didn't find them picky at all, just stiff yet soft. Nicer than the el cheapo boar brush I already had.

Originally Posted by Moonshae

Tried the 30 mm brush. Found it difficult to sufficiently load with soap, probably because the brush is so large.

Despite the stiffness of the bristles, I didn't find them picky at all, just stiff yet soft. Nicer than the el cheapo boar brush I already had.

I want to buy that knot because i have a 27mm handle spare ready for a knot
With some work with my tools i will manage to fit that knot there.

My best brush is a ten-buck Omega 10029 boar. It's a lather machine on soaps and a wonderful face latherer and massager. I've got a half-dozen other brushes - all boars. I've never come across any badger brush I've liked at any price - they were all floppers and promptly got sold off. And I honestly have no idea what guys are talking about when they say boars are "scratchy".

The only disadvantage of the 10029 is the cheap hollow handle. I've been tempted to buy 6-8 10029s and have them re-handled with something nicer. Then I'd never need another brush again.

Of course badger fans will be just as adamant in their preferences. To each his own

If Pig Hair works for you,thats all that matters

I use both. Love my badgers and boars for different soaps, creams. If a badger of quality is considered too floppy, I always suspect someone is tossing it in hot water prior to use, which is not the way to go, IMO. I do like my big Omega, cheap handle cut off and rehandled by HarryWally. Equally impressive (Or at least more so) is my ebony and ivory 2 band badger from Pixelfixed, who also provided me an African Blackwood, stainless bands with ivory inset in the base. A face-lathering bomb. Love them all!