I have had this price for sometime. I still can't master getting enough lather for three pass shave. What is the trick to this brush?I understand this is a face lather brush only. Please help
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I have had this price for sometime. I still can't master getting enough lather for three pass shave. What is the trick to this brush?I understand this is a face lather brush only. Please help
I do not have one but I do have some large two band brushes that are quite dense.
I usually give them a short soak in hot water while I am stropping and then load them up and not be shy about it. Once I start lathering on my face I often have to dip the brush to keep enough water in it. I know I am wasting soap, but I have enough on hand at any given time that it would last for at least a year maybe two.
Load a big dense badger knot like you hate it and the load some more. Run the tips across the water, shake, load and repeat till you have enough thick pasty lather loaded into the brush. Then start to build a lather on your face adding water a bit at a time by dipping just the tips in water till you have the lather the way you want.
Try playing around with the dry brush method mentioned here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4zESTQWDuw
Bob
I have a chubby three. It's a massive brush and it takes a lot of soap and water to get it going but once going you can shave a platoon with it. It can be a real soap waster too. I prefer to use mine with a hard soap that way I can better control the amount of soap it eats.
If you use it with a soap that is challenged it can be really difficult to get a good lather but with a quality soap it will explode.
I've had a chubby 3, too much of a good thing, and sold it to get a chubby 2 ..... Goldilocks (just right) IME doing something Lynn told me about, just load the tips of the brush on the puck. I do my initial lather, then I swirl the brush on the puck a couple of more times before setting it bristle down in my Moss (small) scuttle to keep it warm. Good for 3 + latherings. :gl:
I would recommend loading enough soap as that might seem to be the issue, here. Furthermore, you might want to try using more paint-brush strokes while applying the lather if you face-lather.
Another thing, this brush can be used for both bowl and face-lathering. No need to limit it to the latter.
You could also consider using creams with this brush as they might facilitate the process.
Here is a video that might be of assistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK69kTft6gc
Good luck.
I have a Chubby 2 in my rotation of nine brushes. I use a cream in a scuttle most of the time and it takes twice as much cream to get enough for a 2 pass shave. It also take longer to whip it into a lather.
It works well with soaps but I have to whip up a lather for each pass. Prep your face with hot/warm water before applying lather, that might help too. A hog brush is much more efficient but BOARING .
I'm always reloading my brush between passes. I try not to load enough for all passes because I like to get some fresh soap that goes on the face kind of pastie. Then add some more water. My last pass I squeeze the soap out of the brush and put it on my face. But its a bit too watery so back on the puck again. I enjoy working up the lather and getting it just right. I go threw more soap than I need too but it lasts a long time and I got lots.
Just following up, is the brush working better for you?
Works great with lots of cream. Not so great for soaps. My omega boar brush works like a dream on hard soaps.
If it works well with "lots" of cream the you are simply not loading enough soap from the hard puck.
Bob
I like the brush for creams. Most of the time I shave I am in a hurry. When I know I'm going to use soap are usually pick a different brush
Whatever works for you. It is just that having separate brush types for hard pucks and creams is not really necessary as far as I have found. I use boar, badger and synthetics with either hard pucks or cream and find they all work. Again, what works for is all the matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chet
Bob
You state that the brush is for face lathering only. I'm sure it would do just fine as a bowl or palm latherer.
In my opinion: what does it matter of you have to recharge the brush between passes?
Nothing wrong with that, I'd say.
There is no rule that you cannot charge a brush before every pass.
B.
Yes there is. Page 8 paragraph 3 line 6 of the Code of Shaving regulations specifically says it's a misdemeanor offense to recharge a brush during the shave.Quote:
Originally Posted by beluga
For me one of the ways I rate a cream or soap is the ability to load up your brush one time only to last the entire shave. if I have to reload the brush I show the soap or cream the door.
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Originally Posted by thebigspendur
Ah, I see.
Am I glad that I filed for a variation under section 3a, subsection II, which allows me to continue charging my brush between passes to, as it is technically called, "restore the full lather for the second pass".
Hence, this variation is also known as the "full lather" variation, or in colloquial parlance "suckers for lather" variation.
Comes quite handy when I want to look for each pass at that Santa Claus like face in the shaving mirror.
Just because I can shave with a single charge does not mean that I should give that second charge, which gives me so much pleasure, a miss....
B.
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Ok, I had the same problem that you described and here is what I can share. 1) let the brush break in 6-8 uses so it reaches close to its full bloom. 2) load the damp brush for 30 seconds and then start working up a lather in your bowl. Here is the key, water, water and more water. My CH3 Super badger loads a ton of soap easily, but it takes an ocean of water to get the soap out of the center of the brush and into a lather. The first several teaspoons of water creates a paste that sticks to the bowl sides and won't lather. Keep adding water! From the paste stage to a full lather is an exercise in patience as you will add water 2,3, or more times to fully develop a full lather.
Here is my brush now...It easily creates lather
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I finally got the hang of it. It works great. What kind of lather bowl?Quote:
Originally Posted by doc47
Symmetrical Pottery
The thing about brushes is, there are only a few parameters in good lather development. Assuming a good brush and quality soap or cream and decent water quality it's either loading enough soap, adding enough lather and working the brush.
If you play with those three you can't go wrong. Of course if the first three are lacking then you be like a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
To prevent soap from gettin into the core of my badger brush I give it a short soak in warm water; shake out most of the water; load the brush with a bit of water on top of the (soaked) soap; build a lather avoiding circular motions as much as possible. I do use circular motions, but very sparingly.
I keep my lather wet and rinse the brush thoroughly after I'm done, ending with carefully rinsing the knot up straight with, again, warm water.
Once a month I do a five minute cleaning with washing up liquid, it has kept my only badger (and main) brush in tip top shape for about five years now.
Best regards,
Pieter
If I lad my brush for 30 seconds with my MDC I would have enough soap for 5-6 shaves, it goes down the drain. But mostly if my soap is not coming out of the brush it's always to dry. Tc
