Prison made shaving brushes

Northam Saint

Northam Saint

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Had an interesting conversation yesterday with an ex inmate. While serving some time at Her Majesty's pleasure he had a job. His job was assembling shaving brushes something like 20-22 years ago. This involved weighing bristles so many grams each and then gluing them into handles. He didn't recall who for and said they didn't label them.

Interesting, any ideas who they would of been for ?
 
In the Israeli army shaving brushes are still in use even now days, for dusting off their rifles.. I jok you not, it's a mandatory item for most soldiers and have been since time and memorial.
Of course the soldiers shave with goo and carts but the brushes are there alright.
 
Shemen Zait said:
In the Israeli army shaving brushes are still in use even now days, for dusting off their rifles.. I jok you not, it's a mandatory item for most soldiers and have been since time and memorial.
Of course the soldiers shave with goo and carts but the brushes are there alright.
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That makes good sense Shemen, for a few years we bought small paint brushes and handed them in to our local Army recruiting office for exactly that purpose for our troops in Afghanistan. If we'd only thought on inexpensive brushes would have been ideal as our guys had to cut the brush handles down themselves. Nice one.

JohnnyO. o/
 
There use to be a place back in the 1990s just outside of Portsmouth, (Cosham) where disabled adults made badger brushes for specialist paint finishes and also shaving brushes. I often wondered the same about who they were making them for. I do know they did sell to the public which is how I came to know about this.

Prisons make a lot of goods for government agencies and forces like door entry ID holders, lanyards, dog tags and the like. I play squash with a friend who works in the Prison service workshops.
 
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