This quote prompted this thread... Not talking about your first "good" brush, but the very first brush you ever used. @PLANofMAN nailed mine - a VDH brush back in early 2008 (by the way, I was 45). Not with the starter set, though it is the same one. I bought it separately with a puck of VDH Deluxe, the one that came in the little green box. Not a bad brush, but good enough to make me want to stick with this traditional wet shaving experience. So what was your very first brush? Still have it? Still use it?
VDH here. Cheap and falling apart, but it worked OK. Always liked the handle geometry - I thought they nailed that!
A Muhle Boar and I still have it but don't use it. I consider it pretty much useless after having some good badgers
vdh boar I always used a brush. can, gel, anything. I always applied it with a brush. I used the first one until it was worn out, replaced it with this one. same model, color.
Semogue 1305... And after 3 years I'm finally enjoying it. Only because I haven't used it that often.
My first brush was a red and ivory Barbasol Burma Shave brush I got in the early 90s. I used it to apply Edge. I believe those were my TracII or Atra days. When I returned to DEs I got a Tweezerman brush. The rest is history.
My first brush was an Omega Pro 49. I sacrificed the handle and transplanted the knot into my unmarked Rubberset 400.
Add me to the VDH Boar Club. VDH soap puck too. I still have the blue & green bowl that I use to soak my brushes in. I PIF'd the brush when I got my Omega 10066 Boar. Downhill slope from there.................
The very first saving brush I used was my Grandfathers it was from a Old Spice mug and brush set, Back in the 1970's that I used it. When I came back to wet shaving a couple of years ago I used a VDH Brush Deluxe set. I don't have a picture of it to post sorry. It looks sick anyway.
Mine was a TOBS best badger, way too floppy for me, have since sold it. I now have about a dozen brushes, but only 4 get used with any kinda regularity,
Mine was a Parker Silvertip with a metal handle. It was actually a pretty good brush. I think I PIF'd it away a couple of years ago.
Some brandless boar thing. Wasn't great and when it fell out of the handle I ditched it. But that was in my pre-TSD days. Long ago. Used canned goo for quite some years until I took up DE shaving.
Interesting thread. I started with a Burma Shave mug and soap kit brush (ironic, since Burma Shave was only ever a brushless cream). It ended up in the trash. My second brush was a VdH brush. Pif'd to a good friend, he still uses it. I have a feeling I'm going to lose that bet.
An old ever ready of my grandfathers. It fell to pieces and I replaced it with an Edwin Jagger badger followed by too many to mention.
