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

[ralph029]

Oh my, we sure are a chatty bunch! It takes forever to catch up on the 3-4 pages a day. Now I'm going to just pile on

DecemBOAR 7th
Head bowed in a moment of silence for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

I know we are an international site and this is predominantly a US thing, so I thank you all for your understanding.

 

[Lee Van Cleft]

7th of Decemboar…….
The three little pigs….who’s turn today?
Went with the mini Omega today. Lovely little brush….perfect for a trip away.
Fancied a change of razor today. Had a rummage in the stash and found a Gillette 7 O’clock in immaculate condition. Small like the brush. I’ve never used it but today was to be its turn too, loaded up with a new Nacet blade.
SV opuntia soap whisked up in my small bowl.
Lathered up and away we go..Wow! Nice razor!! Small , smooth feel, nimble. First pass graded excellent. This is going to be good.
Second pass more like a clean up job. Took more time than usual but I was enjoying the experience. Had to do another neck pass but was rewarded with a superb BBS finish and no nicks, weepers or much irritation. Great little razor and a top shave. Will stick with it for a while longer.

 

[awk_m4]

Fantastic shave today featuring the SOC Mistura
Thursday December 7, 2023
Brush: Semogue SOC Mistura
Lather: Tabac
Razor: Henson AL13 Medium
Blade: Feather
Post: Tabac

 

[ivan_101]

Omega 10019

 

[Guido75]

Ivan @ivan_101 - as you are the Omega connaisseur extra ordinair following your brush post of just now - I have the following Omega brush (my oldest as old as maybe 30 years). The design transparent (the brush broke and I had to glue it together again causing the glue to make the transparent part go opaque) and black like yours only rounded. And it’s a badger not a boar.

13.01.2023

• Guido75
• Jan 12, 2023

Swing • Eddison (2) • Omega Super Badger • Mitchell’s Wool Fat

But would you happen to know which Omega it is? I have done some research but nothing so far.

Thanks anyway,

Guido

 

[NorthernSoul]

Decemboar 7 (Pearl Harbor Day)

Razor: Gillette Tech (pre-war USA model)
Blade: Gillette Nacet (2)
Brush: Mondial 25mm pro boar
Soap: Signature Soaps Capra unscented
A/S: Dickinson's witch hazel
A/S: Epsilon Blue

DFS+

This Mondial boar brush is an anomaly in my boar brush collection. It is a large, comfortable, soft, but somewhat floppy boar. I don't think floppiness is necessarily bad, but this thing reminds me of an old Buick. Painting strokes work the best with it.

I picked an ancient pre-war Gillette Tech today since there was a guy wondering why everybody was recommending really expensive razors. This well-worn, but intact Tech is from the early 1940s, I'm guessing, and it still shaves pretty well with a sharp blade like the Nacet. It cost around $8, if I recall correctly.

Dickinson's witch hazel and Epsilon Blue finished this quick 2.5 pass shave. Woah, good bit of menthol in that Epsilon Blue.

 

[Steve56]

IB brush, most likely a Zenith. You’d think with that loft that it would be floppy, but you would be wrong, it’s quite stiff. Fun to use.

A Cape 1000 in lava Kirinite scales by @Doc226 completed the hardware, software was vintage Strop Shoppe Russian Tea followed by vintage Old Spice.

 

[amateur]

7th of Decemboar…….
The three little pigs….who’s turn today?
Went with the mini Omega today. Lovely little brush….perfect for a trip away.
Fancied a change of razor today. Had a rummage in the stash and found a Gillette 7 O’clock in immaculate condition. Small like the brush. I’ve never used it but today was to be its turn too, loaded up with a new Nacet blade.
SV opuntia soap whisked up in my small bowl.
Lathered up and away we go..Wow! Nice razor!! Small , smooth feel, nimble. First pass graded excellent. This is going to be good.
Second pass more like a clean up job. Took more time than usual but I was enjoying the experience. Had to do another neck pass but was rewarded with a superb BBS finish and no nicks, weepers or much irritation. Great little razor and a top shave. Will stick with it for a while longer.
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How comfortable is this little brush? She has a very small hand.

 

[amateur]

Dear colleagues. I am delighted with the photos of boar brushes. I like them all very much.

 

[ivan_101]

Ivan @ivan_101 - as you are the Omega connaisseur extra ordinair following your brush post of just now - I have the following Omega brush (my oldest as old as maybe 30 years). The design transparent (the brush broke and I had to glue it together again causing the glue to make the transparent part go opaque) and black like yours only rounded. And it’s a badger not a boar.

13.01.2023

• Guido75
• Jan 12, 2023

Swing • Eddison (2) • Omega Super Badger • Mitchell’s Wool Fat

But would you happen to know which Omega it is? I have done some research but nothing so far.

Thanks anyway,

Guido

I don't think I have used Omegas for more than 25-27 years.

The following current Omegas have that handle:
10072 (boar)
33167 (badger)
6192 (Badger)

 

[SmokedStanley]

Today was the vintage Opal's turn. Even on the days when another brush is getting a turn I have been giving this brush a soak/lather and a vigorous towel drying to help get it broken in. Just one week in and you can already feel the difference. Still a long way to go but much better than the first try. Also used the PAA DOC with an Astra sp (shave 5 on blade) and Col. Conk Amber

 

[Guido75]

I don't think I have used Omegas for more than 25-27 years.

The following current Omegas have that handle:
10072 (boar)
33167 (badger)
6192 (Badger)

Super! Thanks!

 

[Ravenonrock]

Decemboar 7th, Omega 20106

On the larger side of my boars with a big handle and a big knot. Breaking in nicely, a fine brush!

 

[Lee Van Cleft]

How comfortable is this little brush? She has a very small hand.

Yes…..it’s a small grip and requires a pincer type hold…. Definitely not the most comfortable but I forgive it for the marvellous knot and ridiculous low price.
A good candidate for a handlectomy. Worthy of any exotic grip of choice.

 

[Tanuki]

Yes…..it’s a small grip and requires a pincer type hold…. Definitely not the most comfortable but I forgive it for the marvellous knot and ridiculous low price.
A good candidate for a handlectomy. Worthy of any exotic grip of choice.

Those 40033 knots are easily harvested as well. Cut off the very bottom of the handle and knock the knot out with a short dowel and a light hammer. I have harvested a couple.

Here's one re-handled.

Leopardwood

 

[Tanuki]

I don't think I have used Omegas for more than 25-27 years.

The following current Omegas have that handle:
10072 (boar)
33167 (badger)
6192 (Badger)

50 years since my first boar. Cheapie from the drugstore, call it Alpha. Maybe 5 years of Omega. Thoughtless, indifferent, I didn't deserve a decent knot, just kept my poor boar sitting on top of a Williams puck, no companions, no photographs, no internet access.

 

[Lee Van Cleft]

Those 40033 knots are easily harvested as well. Cut off the very bottom of the handle and knock the knot out with a short dowel and a light hammer. I have harvested a couple.

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Here's one re-handled.

Leopardwood

Marvellous job…..it’s such a good little knot IMO. Mine has hardly shed a bristle.

 

[tjsgarden]

DecemBOAR GRUME

This soap has a peaceful meditative scent and the lather stands up to a fresh Muhle blade in a 100 year old OC razor.
This brush is contending with my Semogue 830 for top billing.

 

[Tanuki]

Yesterday, DecemBOAR 6, shave 6

Borrowed the soap in order to have something in the opulence realm of a brace of RazoRock Superslants. Or to match up on the catwalk with Ertan Suer's L'Élégant 6/8 SR.

My Simpson Barbican has not fallen apart or degraded. It has developed a strong appetite for lather, but I'm feeding it arko!, not SV. It does have a humorously tall glue bump. It will not grow up to be an SOC.

 

[Lee Van Cleft]

Yesterday, DecemBOAR 6, shave 6
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Borrowed the soap in order to have something in the opulence realm of a brace of RazoRock Superslants. Or to match up on the catwalk with Ertan Suer's L'Élégant 6/8 SR.

My Simpson Barbican has not fallen apart or degraded. It has developed a strong appetite for lather, but I'm feeding it arko!, not SV. It does have a humorously tall glue bump. It will not grow up to be an SOC.

A hungry boar loves arko!