Thread: Black Badger?

Being one that cannot tolorate varibles well,several yrs back I made a 7 day set of brushes for myself.
All the same handle style,all the same knot size (24mm) all the same grade (TGN Grade A, S.T) all the same loft (48mm).

yea, if the fill is minimal the hair will seem less scratchy and if the loft is longer is may lessen it too. Most of the pure badgers I've seen can be had for 20 bucks or less. For thirty of so you move up to a best grade.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I bought a second hand black .,... A.K.A. "Pure" badger made by Shavemac. One of my favorite brushes. A 48mm loft and maybe 21mm knot with great backbone and scritch. A friend has a Plisson pure black that he says has the same characteristics. I've got 3 Semogue boars . Two of the three have no scritch. The third has quite a bit. I like all three though.

I'm that "friend". About five years ago, I bought a Plisson #12 in Pure Black Badger, with a black acrylic handle, from Atkinson's. It's "scritchy", it's got tons of backbone, it holds water like a 20-year-old, and it is my favorite brush -- bar none -- for the entire range of shaving soaps (TGQ+QED) and creams (Salter's+CF). You cannot go wrong with this brush (and, at this price, it'd be a sin not to buy one).

Black badger is softer than bore but much stiffer than silvertip. That is one I made hiding behind that W&B razor. They work good for stiff soaps like wool-fat or other milled soaps but for glycerin soaps and creams I like the silvertip better. If you have not shaved for a few days and have a longer Brillo pad beard the stiffer black badger will work the lather in better but so will a finest badger.