Right my first brush was a cheapo boar from ebay, cost around £5. I knew nothing about brushes. It did the job and morphed into a nice soft tipped brush. I like it enough to buy another, slightly larger. It was the same no brand name cheapo with bare wood handle. Cheap tat but great brushes all the same. I used them for a few years quite happy.
Then I joined a shaving Forum. Badger and synthetics were discussed. I bought an Edwin Jagger synthetic just to see what the fuss was about, and I was converted. Boars went in the bin. Synthetics were to me the nuts and I saw no reason to use anything else, especially considering badger brushes seem to be a bit of a bottomless pit with different varieties and prices. Not that that stopped me accumulating some less than cheap synthetics.
Anyway after years of synthetic happiness and way too much time spent listening to people rubbishing synthetics and waxing lyrical about the merits of badger brushes, (only on shaving Forums of course. Nobody goes on like that in real life) I decided to try a badger. So here it is. My first ever badger brush....The Simpson Berekely 46 in best.
Haven't used it yet. I've given it a few washes and hand lathers and will use it tomorrow. My first impressions. It feels and smells like something from the medieval days. Old school. Did they have schools back in those days? It's like something Don Quixote might have used. If he shaved. Now I remember why I ditched my boars. It feels hard, pointy and stiff, and it smells funny. I think it's dead. Might as well go the whole way and sharpen up a piece of flint for tomorrows shave. Just to, you know, be authentic. Here is the 46 next some Simpsons synthetics of similar size, the Chubby 1 and Trafalgar T1.
Now obviously I'm not gonna rubbish a product without trying it out properly for a wee while, so I'll post some updates on my progress with this jaggy smelly brush of yesteryear. I've also ordered a few boars. Just to go the whole...hog..snigger.
Then I joined a shaving Forum. Badger and synthetics were discussed. I bought an Edwin Jagger synthetic just to see what the fuss was about, and I was converted. Boars went in the bin. Synthetics were to me the nuts and I saw no reason to use anything else, especially considering badger brushes seem to be a bit of a bottomless pit with different varieties and prices. Not that that stopped me accumulating some less than cheap synthetics.
Anyway after years of synthetic happiness and way too much time spent listening to people rubbishing synthetics and waxing lyrical about the merits of badger brushes, (only on shaving Forums of course. Nobody goes on like that in real life) I decided to try a badger. So here it is. My first ever badger brush....The Simpson Berekely 46 in best.
Haven't used it yet. I've given it a few washes and hand lathers and will use it tomorrow. My first impressions. It feels and smells like something from the medieval days. Old school. Did they have schools back in those days? It's like something Don Quixote might have used. If he shaved. Now I remember why I ditched my boars. It feels hard, pointy and stiff, and it smells funny. I think it's dead. Might as well go the whole way and sharpen up a piece of flint for tomorrows shave. Just to, you know, be authentic. Here is the 46 next some Simpsons synthetics of similar size, the Chubby 1 and Trafalgar T1.
Now obviously I'm not gonna rubbish a product without trying it out properly for a wee while, so I'll post some updates on my progress with this jaggy smelly brush of yesteryear. I've also ordered a few boars. Just to go the whole...hog..snigger.
