World's largest shaving brush

**ArchersParadox** · 02-12-2010, 03:25 PM

Today, for the low low price of 1,000,000 USD, you can own the world's largest shaving brush.

http://delongbrush.en.alibaba.com/pr...NG_BRUSH_.html

Holy crap that thing is enormous.

How impossible would that be to lather with?

Imagine the size of the scuttle.

**Pumpkin** · 02-12-2010, 03:30 PM

I'll pass....my SBAD hasn't got THAT bad yet!

**SliceOfLife** · 02-13-2010, 09:34 AM

Buy it, then return it for shedding.

My avatar is watching his children make that brush.

**Grumpy Old Git** · 02-13-2010, 09:47 AM

According to the blurb
this means that we need 10,000 badgers to finish this shaving brush

10,000 animals for that?!

For something of no practical use...

Why couldn't they just use cheap-ass not-fit-to-lather-a-bears-arse grade badger and save this 'choice' hair for brushes that will be used and enjoyed.

Oi Vey...!

**coolbluewater** · 02-13-2010, 09:48 AM

You'd have to dump 1kg Cella tubs into a 5-gallon bucket for lathering.

And we wonder why there's a short supply of Finest hair...

"Mr. Edward Zhang" - gee, there's a shock

The Chinese are driving tigers (and everything else, it seems) into extinction, and now badgers. Great.

**LordTyranus** · 02-13-2010, 09:58 AM

it's a fake, isn't it ?

what is the size of the badger ? compare the size of the hair on the normal brushes to this one, impossible.

**coolbluewater** · 02-13-2010, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by LordTyranus

it's a fake, isn't it ?

what is the size of the badger ? compare the size of the hair on the normal brushes to this one, impossible.

Did you read the page text? There are only 30 hairs on each badger that are that length; that's why he said he needed 10,000 badgers to complete the brush.

I'd prefer he'd use 10,000 of his relatives instead.

**Grumpy Old Git** · 02-13-2010, 10:16 AM

For once I'm actually hoping that I've been taken in by a photoshop...

**coolbluewater** · 02-13-2010, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Grumpy Old Git

For once I'm actually hoping that I've been taken in by a photoshop...

Me too, but if it really is in the Guinness Book, they heavily scrutinize all entries for validity.

**drumana** · 02-13-2010, 10:29 AM

I think I'll get it. If it doesn't work out, I can always sell it on the B/S/T forum for just a small loss.

**cvac** · 02-13-2010, 10:30 AM

Looks like a giant mutant badger chia pet growing out of a flower pot.

**Chuck Norris** · 02-13-2010, 10:48 AM

Man that's just disgusting 10,000 animals killed for a joke? Not cool China

**mmack66** · 02-13-2010, 10:51 AM

The record is for the largest shaving brush. Blurb aside, it doesn't say that it is badger hair. What part of the badger do these "30 hairs" come from?

**drewmac** · 02-13-2010, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Chuck Norris

Man that's just disgusting 10,000 animals killed for a joke? Not cool China

+1.....really not cool when Chuck Norris says it's not cool!

**cfriend** · 02-13-2010, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Chuck Norris

Man that's just disgusting 10,000 animals killed for a joke? Not cool China

I doubt the 10,000 badgers were killed for just these hairs... Come on guys...

**Grumpy Old Git** · 02-13-2010, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by cfriend

I doubt the 10,000 badgers were killed for just these hairs... Come on guys...

I was skeptical regarding the 30k figure, but it seems 50,000 badgers are killed on UK roads per year and since China is much bigger and actively breeds/hunts badgers for their pelt maybe 30k is more than achievable if they're just cherry-picking a few choice length hairs here and there.

**coolbluewater** · 02-13-2010, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by cfriend

I doubt the 10,000 badgers were killed for just these hairs... Come on guys...

Try checking into what the Chinese do to vast numbers of sharks, just to keep their fins for soup. The remaining sharks minus the fins get dumped over the side.

**luvmysuper** · 02-13-2010, 06:16 PM

C'mon, jeesh.

This is OBVIOUSLY photo shopped.
There is no way at all that;
1. A badger has ANY hair that long
2. Even if he did have hair that LONG, it would still be the same THICKNESS, so it wouldn't stand up when it was that long.

What, you thought it was just coincidence that the color banding on the "select 30 hairs" just happen to match what you'd get if you blew it up in size?

Want me to make one of these for you?
I think I could have a pic up in less than an hour.

**Huxley** · 02-14-2010, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by Grumpy Old Git

I was skeptical regarding the 30k figure, but it seems 50,000 badgers are killed on UK roads per year and since China is much bigger and actively breeds/hunts badgers for their pelt maybe 30k is more than achievable if they're just cherry-picking a few choice length hairs here and there.

I think you will find a lot of those badgers will have been peppered with lead shot, farmers don't like badgers as they can spread tb so a few have been known to kill them off only to be dumped on the roadside as roadkill so they don't end up busted. ;)

But that brush is just plain silly.