JCinPA
The Lather Maestro
All I know is my green B&B anniversary brush, special edition byOmega, is my favorite shaving brush, hands down, with no close second. YMMV, of course.
I have been reading a lot of forum posts and watching videos. I see a lot of people either break in their boar brush by using it or soaking it in water. It made me wonder how many people prefer one over the other? Or are there other methods you have heard of?
Regardless of how you break your new Zenith in, use it at least 40 - 50 times before you decide whether you like it, or not. It takes a lot of use to get a boar brush broken in. Don't think after 5 - 10 lathers it's close to being broken in. Use it & enjoy it! BTW, that Zenith is a marvelous brush!
you miss much...I've never had the patience to properly break in a boar brush. I always go back to one of my badgers or a synthetic that are always good to go.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have similar knot in another Zenith boar brush with about 20 uses.Patina Update:
It's really nice looking, but it's still a lather hog. I load it until I just push paste around on the puck, and it eats all the lather it makes after/during the first pass. The only way I can use more soap is if I scrape some off of the puck and smush it down into the mug. That and loading the brush seems to be the answer, but I haven't tried Scrape & Smush without loading first. I guess that's next on my agenda.
Is that just a characteristic of dense, fat knots?
well i have an 50€ badger brush (silvertip, all companies got different grades on badger hairs, and that means NOTHING). that is pricky and sticky on my face... But an 3.9€ boar brush after 50 shaves is incredibly soft, so count on this... I only facelather.Would you say a properly broken in boar is equivalent or better than a badger?