Thread: How long does the average Boar's hair brush last?

I've only had mine 3 months, but I'm wondering how much I can expect out of it.

Originally Posted by rph74

I've only had mine 3 months, but I'm wondering how much I can expect out of it.

Didn't last all that long on the hog ....

mine is going on 7 months and still in good shape.

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I was using one for about a year and the glue came apart at the knot. Lynn

I'm 57 and have been using boar bristle brushes for years. Until I joined this group I didn't even know about Badger Hair Brushes. I know that I have used some continuously for over 4 years. I was in the Navy and moved alot so usually lost them along the way. Never had one come apart and never wore one out.
Jack

I think my father's boar bristle brush is older than I am (37), I recently gave him a nice super badger brush, 'cuase his old brush looked like hell. He gave back the badger brush as it was too soft for him after his many years of using a stiff bristle brush. So I bought him an inexpensive Vulfix boar bristle brush and he's very happy with it.

I have a Surry bristle brush that I've been using for about 15 years and it's to the point that it is shedding alot, and I'm looking for a suitable replacement for it. I also have a nice big super badger brush (pictures in my gallery folder) which I love, but it is more work to work up a lather with it, so I tend to use it for my nice long relaxing shaves, and I use the boar bristle for the quick shaves.

- Clyde

I'm on my second cheap boar brush. With the first one, the bristles were fine, but the cheap plastic handle cracked. The bristles were actually glued together inside the handle so I used it without a handle for a week or so. (I am cheap, too.)

I have yet to enter the illustrius Brotherhood of the Badger, but I will.

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I bought mine when I started wet shaving and tried a straight for the first time. Still a good brush. 1974 or 5 I think it was.

I've got a Mohawk boar shaving brush, made in Canada, that I bought at Sears & Roebuck when I first started shaving in high school around 1967. It was my only brush for many years and it's still in the rotation and still going strong!

I used boar brushes for about 25 years before finding SRP and trying my first badger hair brush. I think most lasted in the range of 3 to 5 years, but some lasted less than a year. Then again, these were cheap brushes I bought in drug stores. Some were replaced because over time they lost so many hairs one by one that they were too thin. Others failed when large clumps would come out at once when the knot fell apart. The fault was always the knot.