Much to my disgrace, until recently my only boar brush was an el-cheapo Vulfix which to my knowledge isn't in production anymore. It has a reasonably nice handle, which made me buy it in the first place, but as I've mentioned before, it's either a nice handle and a lousy knot (come on you Smoggie owners, you know this to be true) or a lousy handle and a nice knot (Omega all the way) and never, it appears, both. Try as I might, the Vulfix remained tough, and quite frankly unpleasant to use.
As TGN have finally started stocking a few boar knots and I managed to scrounge a somewhat beaten up Ever Ready handle off @Mark1966 , it was time to make a new one. It's a 22mm knot, which seems to be the almost universal boar knot size, and it's got a 50mm loft. In my collection of brushes that is huge.
I have a new found appreciation for the humble Ever Ready handle. Firstly you can find this model and many other similar ones on e-bay all the time. It, to my knowledge, invariably had and was designed to take a boar knot and was sold as the reasonably priced drug store boar brush. Secondly, unlike similar makes that I've re-knotted, it is very well constructed with two threaded sections of meaty bakelite/plastic. I should have taken a picture of it in pieces. I also added a few bits of lead sinker in the handle and it feels and looks like a monster. I'd forgotten how long a boar takes to break in. After two shaves and several shampoos it's still destroying the lather but that will pass I'm sure.
As TGN have finally started stocking a few boar knots and I managed to scrounge a somewhat beaten up Ever Ready handle off @Mark1966 , it was time to make a new one. It's a 22mm knot, which seems to be the almost universal boar knot size, and it's got a 50mm loft. In my collection of brushes that is huge.
I have a new found appreciation for the humble Ever Ready handle. Firstly you can find this model and many other similar ones on e-bay all the time. It, to my knowledge, invariably had and was designed to take a boar knot and was sold as the reasonably priced drug store boar brush. Secondly, unlike similar makes that I've re-knotted, it is very well constructed with two threaded sections of meaty bakelite/plastic. I should have taken a picture of it in pieces. I also added a few bits of lead sinker in the handle and it feels and looks like a monster. I'd forgotten how long a boar takes to break in. After two shaves and several shampoos it's still destroying the lather but that will pass I'm sure.
