🦡 🦡 🦡 BADGERary 2025!!! Only Badger Brushes for all of January!!! 🦡 🦡 🦡

[SgtCrppls]

Brush: Black Eagle “Cheetah” Covid 2020 25mm HT2, Exceptional Brush
Blade: Perma Sharp
Soap: Ethos “Bay Rum” F Base
Razor: WR2 Ti SB 1.25 w/ Timeless Ti Crown Handle

Doug

 

[Shave Souffle]

1/8/25



Carbon CX ++ in brass
Oumo (Ming?) badger
Stirling Frozen Tuxedo (glacial)
Stirling Island Man (glacial) AS

Thought I already posted this earlier today but I guess I didn't. Great lather from the very rarely used brush. Bigger than I prefer but did a great job. New soap and AS were pleasant. DFS+

 

[Bish]

Soap: P&B K7
Brush: M&F Chief
Razor: Tech
Blade: Gillette Platinum
Post: L’Oréal Power Age

*Great shave, no wonder the Tech is so copied.

 

[ewk]

BADGERary 8, 2025 -- Yaqi Mellon / Simpson Berkeley

 

[Rudy Vey]

RV Shaving with DG B14

 

[Sascoman]

Rhodium 26mm Flat Top

 

[Anchovie666]

Thursday 1/09 Shave
BADGERary Day 9
All BADGER Brushes - All Month

Pretty much used the Straight for all three passes
Only used the ATT SE-2 for edging the sideburns
No Cuts or Weepers
You must be able to teach an old Dog new tricks after all
Overall a Very Good DFS+ Shave

Razor: Thiers Issard Art of Shaving Stainless Scales
Blade: 5/8
Lather: Vi-John Tropical Lime Shave Cream
Brush: the Holy Black Horn Handle BADGER
Post Shave: Osage/Mennen Mix Splash On
Post Shave: Goodfella's Smile Royal Lime

 

[Mustard Seed]

Simpson Duke Silvertip

 

[helicopter]

The Simpson 59 in Butterscotch Manchurian.

Our relationship is improving slightly. It only lost three hairs on this third use. It remains slow to pick up soap, but it partially makes up for this by forming foamy rich lather quickly on my face.

It feels pretty good to me. It might be nice with some cream squirted from the tube into the knot for a full face lather. There is a chance it will be liked, but less versatile in its more limited capacity.

 

[awk_m4]

Simpson CH1

 

[Phil Harmonica]

Friday 10/01/2025 (Australia)
BADGERary Day 10
All BADGER Brushes - All Month

Opal B194 (restored)/18mm HMW Badger

 

[dmshaver]

Rudy Vey Polo handle with a 26mm Manchurian.

 

[Jmp63]

2024 Group Buy brush in Semogue Mistura today! Have a great day y’all!

 

[WThomas0814]

Paladin El Dorado - 2025 B&B Team Brush - 26mm Select Badger

 

[SwamperWI]

Rudy Vey Persian Jar with 28mm Mozingo ZT4 badger knot

 

[J-MN]

Razor: Blackland, Blackbird Ti - Lite
Blade: Gillette, Nacet
Brush: Shavemac, 2-Band Silvertip Badger
Soap/Cream: Santa Maria Novella
Post Shave: Duke Cannon, After-Shave Balm

 

[m949]

Arno 28mm, Silvertip Badger, Galactic Halberd

This brush was a custom order for my last birthday. I wanted to add a second silvertip badger to my rotation as I already had two 2-band badgers. I also really wanted a larger knot than my usual 26mm and was initially aiming for a 30mm knot. While I was discussing my requests with the owner of Arno, she recommended going for a 28mm knot instead of 30mm given the handle shape I was aiming for. I always liked Arno's Halberd handles but also really liked their dark blue / gold handles. Arno only offered this color in their "Shark" shape, so I asked them if they would turn a blue/gold blank into a Halberd for this brush. And they did.

The knot is very densely packed and incredibly large. It is set at a loft of 55mm, also on my request. Once it blooms, it is a massive knot. Maybe a bit too large, as I had to get a larger bowl to accommodate this knot for lathering. It's an incredibly well performing knot though, having no problems to lather any of my soaps and the large size kind of makes for a super-luxurious feeling. But yeah, this brush can lather up a bear for shaving.

I'm quite happy with my handle choice. The Halberd is a bit longer than normal handles, but the shapes sits really well in the hand. The length also ensures that most of the handle remains lather free during a shave.

 

[Opolar]

Semogue SOC Mistura brush

 

[awk_m4]

Simpson Berkeley 46

 

[Rudy Vey]

RV Shaving with the last Mozingo knot