"Outing The Secret Boar Hair Brush" or "The Nu-cu-ler Option" (now with poll)

Ok, in spite of the lush, incredible performances given by our uber-premium badger hair brushes, how many of you secretly keep at least one boar hair brush in rotation or as the "nuclear option".

I confess. I have a very scrubby one in the shower I use for preshave/prep everyday.

I thought it was "new kyew lur?"

Boar is my brush of choice.

Never had a bore brush..................ever.


but I did just get a Men-U synthetico offering.............Feels a lot like I imagine boar would.

I have an Omega beechwood handle boar bristle, and I miss my old Wilkinson Sword one which I wore out so I think I'm going to get a replacement.

My only brush is a Burma Shave boar. I've never tried badger.

My preferred brush of choice at this time is an Omega wood handled boar brush
My badgers, bests,supers,and silvertips are "riding the pines"for a while
FredC.

I use one or two every once in a while. They normally get used when I shave my head in the shower.

I appreciate the scrubby feeling and less splay of a boar brush.

Kind regards,

Secretly? I only use a boar brush. Never used anything else. (I'll admit that I'm a newbie, and there might be a badger brush in my future, but at the moment I don't feel the need and I have no plans to buy one.)

JPK

Most days, I reach for some type of badger brush. But sometimes, I just gotta have that scrubby feeling. I reach my arm all the way to the back of my shave cabinet and pull out the old Billy Baroo - an Omego pro boar.

I voted no as I don't currently have a boar brush...if I had one I'd probably use it now and then

I find the C&E best too scruffy, so no boars for me.

Two or three times a month, but its old like me and really long term friends, can sometimes, be few and far between.

rikrdo said:

Never had a bore brush..................ever.

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Then how do you clean your rifles?

Nothing wrong with a decent boar brush - I have a cheapie Wilkinson that I just bought a while back.

Its too skritchy for face lathering, but I do enjoy using mine every now and again.

I still have an old cheap, scratchy Wilkinson Sword brush which I think is boar (quite happy to be corrected on that point). Anyway it lives it my kit bag for the gym but I like it for face lathering. I prefer my EJ and BK4 brushes for lathering in a bowl.

Had a conk delux boar. the wife uses it now. (being dulux and imported, it has to be good, right?) it is actually a nice brush. softer than the conk pure. but it did not hold water or heat like my CEBBB.

I have one I use on occasion. It belonged to my grandfather. If I was only allowed to have one....it would be this brush.

ouch said:

I find the C&E best too scruffy, so no boars for me.

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Not the same. A boar is not scratchy. The B&B is.