Do you still have or use your first Shaving Brush

[bijou]

What was your first brush or brushes and do you still have or use the brush or brushes?

In high school (New York), I worked 2 evenings a week delivering for a Fuller Brush salesman, so my first brush was a Fuller brush Boar which cost me $1.25. I do not' have that brush any longer but I do have my first badger from Macy's that was around 1964 and a few others a Simpson 1970's and a GEO. F Trumpers 1990's.

L-R Macy's 22, Simpson 23, Trumpers 24 (knot size)

 

[Rudy Vey]

yes, and no. Have it still, but do not use it any longer, just a piece to remember. Was the first brush I made.

 

[pork]

I have mine, but I don’t use it, at least not for shaving. I have been using the boar hair for tying trout flies.

 

[bijou]

yes, and no. Have it still, but do not use it any longer, just a piece to remember. Was the first brush I made.

Hello Rudy

Thank you for all the wonderful work you have done for me throughout these years.
Steven Toushin

 

[Luecke2326]

Only been using a brush about 7 years, no where near your 50+ years! My first brush was a Parker Silvertip Badger, it worked great for a beginner, but it was way too floppy to use for daily face lathering. It was given to my wife, she loves it.


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[AimlessWanderer]

No, mine died earlier this year. Not sentimental about it though, just threw it in the bin and bought another.

 

[Badgerstate36]

Mine is long gone. It was a cheap little The Body Shop synthetic brush.

 

[nwohio]

Yes, I received a C & E Boar brush as a gift back in the mid 90's and still drag it out once in a while.

 

[nemo]

Mine's long gone, lost in the seventies and forgotten.

Nice save on your oldies!!

 

[ackvil]

My first brush was a cheapie from a local drug store. It lasted from 1956 until about 1993 when I replaced it with a brush from Hoffritz. I still have the Hoffritz brush, however.

 

[shave/brush]

Mine was a cheap badger I got at a drugstore. I used it on and off (I used canned goop also). The knot fell out one day. I glued it back in but soon got a new brush when I discovered this forum.

 

[WalterK]

Yes.

It is just a cheap Wilki similar to the one pictured bellow. I now use it as a small duster for car vents and such.

 

[Noodles]

Mine is long gone. It was a cheap little The Body Shop synthetic brush.

Same here. From the early 90's upon temporarily trying soaps and brushes. It shed like crazy so lost a lot of density and I wound up throwing it out this year. That said, I did use it for 6 months or so a couple of years ago upon starting up again with DEs and soaps/brushes when we lived in a rental house with horribly hard water as I didn't want to wreck a good brush with sediment etc.

 

[Bakker1964]

Yup . . . but I've only been at this for a few years or so.

 

[Lightcs1776]

First brush was a cheap badger (cheaper than my Semogue boar, if I recall correctly). I had just found online shaving forums at the time and didn't realize a low quality badger could be worse than a reasonable quality boar. It went in the trash a few weeks after I received it, as it shed many hairs every single shave.

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[LoveDaUP]

I did until this week. It is a Simply Beautiful Pure Badger, cheap but does what it needs to do. My 19yo son just started wet shaving, and I gave it to him for his first shaving brush.

 

[Macfrommichigan]

First was an Everready boar. 1971. 200T. Wore it out long ago.

 

[bijou]

I did until this week. It is a Simply Beautiful Pure Badger, cheap but does what it needs to do. My 19yo son just started wet shaving, and I gave it to him for his first shaving brush.

that's wonderful

 

[Vespasian]

I has a drugstore boar when I first started shaving, but when I moved to London in 1971, I went to Floris and bought a proper badger brush. I used it constantly until worn down to a nub, them five years ago, had Larry at WD install a new silvertip knot. I use it every shave. It was ivory when I bought it, now a nice nut-brown, less red that the picture.

 

[ajkel64]

No, sadly thrown out many many years ago. The silly thing is, is that now I find it hard to get rid of anything but when I was younger I tossed lots of things that I wish I still had.