🐽 🐷 🐖 🐗 DecemBOAR 2023!!! Only Boar Brushes for all of December! 🐽 🐷 🐖 🐗

[Balin]

Decemboar Shave 2

First run with this Zenith, it's also a keeper! Soft and dense!

 

[Jayson74]

12-3-23 Sunday

Razor: Overlander
Blade: Perma-sharp (1)
Soap: RR The Dead Sea
Brush: Semogue 1470(5)
Pre: Shower
Post: The Dead Sea

Busy weekend visiting some friends so no shave since Friday at 1am.
Fresh Perma-sharp in the Overlander left me with a DFS in 2 easy passes.
The 1470 is breaking in nicely!

Be well
Jay

 

[Ravenonrock]

Decemboar 3rd, Vielong bleached boar

My only brush with a barber handle and I really like it. A great big brush for attacking a great big crock of Frankensoap. Lovely brush!

 

[SharpieB]

Soaked it for about an hour and a half. I am ever more convinced that longer is better, and there is no such thing as "too long".

That brush has never had less than an hour in soak before use and so far it hasn't lost a single hair. Coincidence?

Maybe, but so far it seems to work. It also keeps elephants out of the bathroom.

I do the same thing. Usually soaked in hot water for a good hour. All of my brushes, even synths.

 

[Tanuki]

I forgot you like them floppy.
It is not a coincidence. You soak a bigger part of the knot, the possibillity of shedding gets less and less. The bigger part of the bristle gets wet and it makes it more elastic, i.e. less prone to breaking. Your super long soaking makes the water reach a bigger part of the legth of the bristle, even if you soak in only 1 cm of water.

I'm a never soak, bad to the backbone, prefers scrubby and scritchy kinda guy. Another reason to have a passel of hogs. Keep 'em rough and rowdy.

From the Old Farmer's Almanac website:
"Question
What does one call a group of hogs?

Answer
A group of pigs is called a drift or drove.
A group of young pigs is called a litter.
A group of hogs is called a passel or team.
A group of swine is called a sounder.
A group of boars is called a singular."

I think the 'singular' one is humorous. Wild boars don't form groups. A sounder is typically a sow (or sows) and their young.

 

[ivan_101]

I'm a never soak, bad to the backbone, prefers scrubby and scritchy kinda guy. Another reason to have a passel of hogs. Keep 'em rough and rowdy.

From the Old Farmer's Almanac website:
"Question
What does one call a group of hogs?

Answer
A group of pigs is called a drift or drove.
A group of young pigs is called a litter.
A group of hogs is called a passel or team.
A group of swine is called a sounder.
A group of boars is called a singular."

I think the 'singular' one is humorous. Wild boars don't form groups. A sounder is typically a sow (or sows) and their young.

Let me guess. You a swine specialist?

 

[Steve56]

Vintage Modial boar today, a lucky NOS eBay find. The razor was a Filarmonica 14 with an edge from the stone that it’s sitting on, and Penhaligons Blenheim Bouquet completed the software contribution.

 

[Opolar]

Omega 10108 boat brush.

 

[Champion of Capua]

2021 TSN LE
Goodwill w/ BRW Bullmastiff

 

[SmokedStanley]

Adding this Opal to the Decemboar rotation. I do not think it has received much love so far and needs to be broken in. After the soak and then to the soap.

 

[ralph029]

*Oh hell, I forgot to hit "Post reply".

DecemBOAR 3rd.
Another day with the scuttle. I guess winter is here in Phoenix.

 

[hopper_64]

Sunday DecemBOAR 3rd

Leaf Thorn
Astra Superior Stainless (1)
Proraso (Omega) Professional
Stirling Ramblin' Man

 

[GoodOutcome]

Never liked this brush. Tomorrow I will check my storage for other Boar brushes.

03 December 2023
PAA Bakelite OC Slant
The Gentleman (1)
Semogue 2017 LE
La Savonnière du Moulin (158)
Nivea

 

[cajunrph]

Zenith 507IF Italian Flag.

 

[TJT]

This Semogue 830 has been a part of thousands of shaves and is showing signs of its age. The bristles have developed a twist that I can’t get rid of and there are air gaps in the red section of the handle, but it still has a few shaves left.
Cheers all!

 

[tjsgarden]

This Semogue 830 has been a part of thousands of shaves and is showing signs of its age.

The 830 is currently my favorite boar brush.

 

[tjsgarden]

Still in GRUME on the 3rd day of Decemboar

This is the other brush I bought in October preparing for Decemboar. I shamelessly matched it with the copper Fatip razor.

 

[lasta]

Technically this is 50% oinker! The Semogue Mistura doesn't squeal like a pig, but it certainly has the backbone. Very dense knot and slower to break in than even real swine!

 

[SharpieB]

Let me guess. You a swine specialist?

He’s a real boar.

 

[Mannic]

SOTD:3-12-23 #decemboar
Soap:Haslinger Schafmilch
Ashes:Tabac Gravity
Razor:Gillette New
Bladeerby Concord (1)
Brush:Semogue SOC Butterscotch

The soap is definitely top notch in terms of price/quality ratio, I know there are those who disagree with me, but looking at the fact that for €8 you get a puck of soap that can be called very good with a very nice full fat lather with more than fine shaving qualities, it is still a top product.

The aftershave from Tabac, smells nice but does cause a bit of dry skin after applying to the skin with me at least, I now add a drop of glycerin as standard before applying to the skin and this works super.

I must honestly say that the derby blades have pleased me lately, especially this concord I find a very positive discovery, it is not the sharpest blade but it is comfortable and after three passes a DFS result.