Steve56
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Of course, with Em's soaps, you could get a good lather with a basting brush.
Many basting brushes are boar. Alton Brown uses a boar shaving brush as a barbecue sauce brush.
Of course, with Em's soaps, you could get a good lather with a basting brush.
That's probably what got me on the idea. I literally could take a few flicks of the basting brush on one of her soap pucks and have a slick enough lather to shave with.Many basting brushes are boar. Alton Brown uses a boar shaving brush as a barbecue sauce brush.
I just ran out and copyrighted the phrase "barbercue."So tonight I performed my second shave using a boar brush. This time, I used a Sterling soap bbq sauce flavor. No wait... Flashbacks of my previous post here.
I used Sterling soap barbershop. It provided an excellent lather with the boar. Sure wish I could say the same with my first straight razor shave. Took 45 minutes with that shave, which I am not pleased with the results. I will post my thoughts on the straight razor forum.
I joked about this here, but I've been staying at my in-laws this week and didn't bring a brush. I was going to just hand lather but I found an unused, cheap pastry brush in a drawer and whipped up a good lather with it despite the rock-hard water here. I kind of like the paintbrush profile, as it's easy to paint on the lather without it getting everywhere, especially on the mustache.Multipurpose basting, shaving, paintbrush.
I joked about this here, but I've been staying at my in-laws this week and didn't bring a brush. I was going to just hand lather but I found an unused, cheap pastry brush in a drawer and whipped up a good lather with it despite the rock-hard water here. I kind of like the paintbrush profile, as it's easy to paint on the lather without it getting everywhere, especially on the mustache.
Hmm, I haven't made ribs before, and it was much thicker than egg wash. No scritch at all, which you'd like. I prefer a good scritch, so I use my boar brush to free some trapped hairs. Of course, I'll keep it even after it's well broken in, as I don't want to have to buy more than one brush every 20 years.
I acquired my first boar brush from west coast shaving last week. It is an omega boar brush that I used for the first time today.
I wanted to see how it would perform against my trusty silver Badger. Boars are supposed to feel more agressive on your face compared to the silver Badger. I did not have any issues with taking the boar to my face with it's bit more aggressiveness.
My experience with it is that the shaving cream I used (tobs ceadareood - first time use) it did not lather up well on my first use. The lather lasted no more than 1-1/2 shaves. On the second lather, it was no better.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to gather a better lather with a boar as I would with a silver Badger?
Thanks.
Hi Mike,
I realize it's been a couple of months since you first posted this, so you've probably got this worked out. But I wanted to opine a bit.
First, I have about 20 brushes in rotation, mostly vintage. Several of them were new old stock with boar knots. Frankly, I don't like boar compared to badger. I think they're a pain in the butt to deal with, and it's true that they're not as comfortable as badger. The definitely are better with soap, mostly because their stiffer bristles dig into the soap better to pick up material before I lather in my scuttle.
Second, I use several TOBS creams and I've found that the Cedarwood doesn't lather up quite as well as the Sandalwood, Peppermint, and Royal Forest that I'm also using. I like the scent just fine, but the cedarwood needs a bit more water it seems like to give as much volume of lather as the others.
I hope this helps.
I think you need to start looking at more razors...Thanks for your input John.
20 brushes in your collection.... You have me beat. I believe I have 6 or 7 of them which are synthetic, silver Badger, and a boar. All do the job well as I am finding out which brushes do best for cream vs soaps. All feel comfortable on my face with the boar feeling just a bit more aggressive than the Badger and synthetic - but not by much.
Since getting advice from others here on the best way to use a boar brush - I keep it regulated to soaps. I so far used it on Sterling soaps which the boar seems to do the job well. I have not used it that often as I have a whole bunch of sample creams I need to exhaust. And since being on this forum just a few months, this forum is the reason I went from about 6 creams/soaps 1 razor to several razors and a whole damn bunch of soaps and creams - probably near 80 or so, but most of them probably 40 to 50 are of sample sizes which I am trying to exhaust.
I don't think I need to tell you what my cc bills look like since joining this forum.
I am thinking of getting a Blackland Razor. Maybe even a timeless too.I think you need to start looking at more razors...
~doug~
I acquired my first boar brush from west coast shaving last week. It is an omega boar brush that I used for the first time today.
I wanted to see how it would perform against my trusty silver Badger. Boars are supposed to feel more agressive on your face compared to the silver Badger. I did not have any issues with taking the boar to my face with it's bit more aggressiveness.
My experience with it is that the shaving cream I used (tobs ceadareood - first time use) it did not lather up well on my first use. The lather lasted no more than 1-1/2 shaves. On the second lather, it was no better.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to gather a better lather with a boar as I would with a silver Badger?
Thanks.
I think you need to start looking at more razors...
~doug~