Far from the sexiest shot, I know, but the image included below is what the smaller horse-badger knot looked like after face-lathering and applying lather for the first pass. Plenty of lather left for the second pass and touch-ups.
The horse-badger knot acts very much like horsehair, with the badger hair calming down the scritch a little. As such, it does not like a long pre-soak as that would lead to the hairs clumping together; it's enough just to submerge the tips in water for 30 seconds or so, quickly dunking in the rest of the knot shy of handle a couple of times for good measure.
The horse-badger knot acts very much like horsehair, with the badger hair calming down the scritch a little. As such, it does not like a long pre-soak as that would lead to the hairs clumping together; it's enough just to submerge the tips in water for 30 seconds or so, quickly dunking in the rest of the knot shy of handle a couple of times for good measure.