Ever-ready are liars.

**SliceOfLife** · 06-25-2010, 01:30 PM

I just bought a NOS Ever-Ready on ebay that is labeled "Pure Badger" despite being obviously Boar bristle. I'll post pics later. It's a "Cased 250"

**bythbook** · 06-25-2010, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by SliceOfLife

I just bought a NOS Ever-Ready on ebay that is labeled "Pure Badger" despite being obviously Boar bristle. I'll post pics later. It's a "Cased 250"

I've seen brushes labeled "badger cased" - boar bristles surrounded by badger. I wonder if that the case here.

(get it? - "the case")

edit: Just checked - I have a Century that's labeled on the handle:

Pure Badger
Cased
250

with "cased" appearing beneath "pure badger" - so it could be interpreted "Pure Badger" and then "Cased 250"

for whatever it's worth.

**SliceOfLife** · 06-25-2010, 01:49 PM

Wow. Ok. I just lathered with it, and I think it is a badger/boar mix. It's a core of some very soft boar (I think) surrounded by some shorter lofted badger. I'll take pics tonight.

Haha, your post came while I was typing this, but yes... now that it's "bloomed" it looks very much like that is the case.

**Schwert** · 06-25-2010, 02:00 PM

I cannot wait to see that one.

I have a Success brush that is badger cased boar and it works quite well. It would be fun to get a knot like that now.

**SliceOfLife** · 06-25-2010, 02:07 PM

Pics

**kg4ghn** · 06-25-2010, 02:13 PM

That's kinda crazy. How does it perform?

**SliceOfLife** · 06-25-2010, 02:18 PM

Like a badger pretty much. I was actually lathering it to get the break-in started and I immediately noticed that it was lathering like a badger brush. It made me go, "huh?". Behaves like a fairly loose packed pure/best badger, but not prickly or scritchy like they can be.

**bythbook** · 06-25-2010, 02:29 PM

...yup, pure badger cased!

I have an Ever-Ready almost identical to yours - a 250 - but on the butt of the handle of mine is imprinted "Badger & Bristle."

Quite a nice little brush.

**luvmysuper** · 06-25-2010, 04:35 PM

I think the key here is as mentioned, the word "cased"

**Blondie** · 06-25-2010, 04:45 PM

Phil,

Was that brush on eBay recently, and did you get it? I was watching that one, but fell asleep at the wheel. That's a cool brush, would have made a nice gift alongside something like a gold fatboy executive back in the day.

**SliceOfLife** · 06-25-2010, 04:55 PM

I was #2 on it. I shake my fist at you in fury.

**Blondie** · 06-25-2010, 04:57 PM

This happens so often on here. I remember about a year ago member t-rick and I would cross swords about twice a week on auctions. We finally started communicating and think we paid a little less after that. It was the gentlemanly thing to do.

**luvmysuper** · 06-25-2010, 05:00 PM

I was #1, and it's inbound.

**SliceOfLife** · 06-25-2010, 05:06 PM

Congrats. It's a beaut. I picked up the butterscotch 750 (also inbound) so I can't be too angry.

Originally Posted by Schwert

It would be fun to get a knot like that now.

I believe Leon was considering having Semogue do a Cased (badger & Boar) brush for the 2010 LE, he did a poll gauging interest... but the response he got was pretty negative. Most people just wanted another special boar. Now that I've quite by chance happened across one, I'll give it a go and maybe my vote for the 2011LE as a cased will flip to a Yes.

**luvmysuper** · 06-25-2010, 05:29 PM

We'll ask them for a synthetic cased in horse hair cased in boar bristle cased in badger and watch their head explode.

The Turducken of shaving brushes.

**SliceOfLife** · 06-25-2010, 05:33 PM

Actually, leave the Synthetic out of that and that sounds like it would make for a Hell of an LE. If it was reasonable, I'd buy it just for the curiosity factor.