Thread: Grandads brush

Hello everyone from a very happy littlesilverbladefromwale(s)
I stated in other posts that I had broken or lost some of my grandfathers shaving gear, well, some very good news.
I have found his shaving brush and it is GOOD !!!!!
It's a medium sized CulmaK, looks to be from 50's or 60's and it's a lot silkier feeling than my men-u bristle brush and whips up a lather quicker.
I think it's a boar bristle brush same as the men-u brush but I think 40 years of use has improved it.

Oh! it was hidding in my shoe box!!!!!!

Good find mate. Nice to have something to remember him (if indeed he has passed)

I'd give anything to have the same chance.

Yes he's dead.
His house smelled of fresh tea, palmolive shaving soap and Woodbines.......the combination was really nice, amazingly!
When we used to visit him, I remember on more then one occasion looking up the stairs to the bathroom and seeing him with a face-full of lather. He used to like to wash and shave once he was up, after a night shift, string vest n'all.
I did have his mirror and shaving mug, smashed them during a house move - gutted, but his brush is ace, I can see where he trimmed the outer stray hairs to help keep the bristles more upright and stiffer, worked too!
I don't know if he had a straight razor, I know he was into his knife sharpening. He had a foot operated grinding wheel in his shed and lots of oil stones. My step cousins husband took them all though after he died, he is a grabbing p***k, the man was NOTHING to do with him!

Yeah all my grandfathers WWII medals were all pawned by his father bar a few he hid away (thankfully my dad has got those).

I remember he always shaved every single morning without fail. He used a brush, mug, soap and a DE but then changed to using a gilette mach 3 type razor for many years.

I think in those days, they seen the mach 3 style razors as a revelation as most could not be bothered with the lengths us guys go to i.e. honing, stropping, etc etc... but then again, it's more than a shave to me, it's a hobby.

Did you ever notice that you will always find things in the last place you look?Its too bad that we all have family that is less than desireable.