- Joined
- Monday May 1, 2017
- Location
- London
Enjoy it!
No special treatment needed! Just get in there and use it. Maybe a week or so, it'll start to ease up ...
Last month, I took the long road and enjoyed easing a Semogue SOC Butterscotch into service and this month, the same with a Semogue SOC Taj. It happens when the time is right. While they were still thirsty, I just loaded up really well building a proto-lather on the soap itself. You know I'm a single pass shaver, but I do like a comfort lather afterwards ... which I used to gauge just how my piggies were settling in.Yes, the last few new boar brushes I had no treatment process for, no soaking overnight but I did wash them with Signature Soaps dog shampoo to get rid of the barnyard funk a little but the Semogue smells ok so far.
I used to be of the mindset the break in process is something to hasten but I'm now growing to appreciate the changing nature of boar brushes are what makes them so enjoyable to use.
...I DO think that Semogue can take a while to break in though!
I had one that was impossible to break in. I sold it to a buddy cheap. Could have polished granite with it!! I have a Zenith that is a little better. If a person is dead set on a new boar then Omega breaks in the best IMO. Nowadays I use a natural brush less than five times a year if that as the latest synthetics are just light years ahead.
If you ever decide to sell the SV 70th anniversary ... let me knowI said 'no more soaps' on 3rd March. Then along came the Connaught EU clearance and I succumbed - like a junkie in a poppy field. 3 times I went back to fill my snout....
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Yes, some of those are backups and yes I'm aware that I've previously owned and sold some of these to you.
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Dunno about being the 'Most handsome man on TSR', but you might well be the richest.I said 'no more soaps' on 3rd March. Then along came the Connaught EU clearance and I succumbed - like a junkie in a poppy field. 3 times I went back to fill my snout....
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Yes, some of those are backups and yes I'm aware that I've previously owned and sold some of these to you.
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Nice! I'm certainly enjoying my Taj this month ...Blackland collection top up, and a suitably enabled brush buy, @donnie_arko & @pjgh
I needed a couple of Piggies in the collection, I moved on a couple a while back.
A SOC TAJ & a Torga
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The Proraso? I haven't tried it and I used the bulk2 promo code @shavingstation, and TSR code at Connaught.
Usual brilliant service from both suppliers.
Both brushes shampooed and 1st test lathers done. Promising.
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I said 'no more soaps' on 3rd March. Then along came the Connaught EU clearance and I succumbed - like a junkie in a poppy field. 3 times I went back to fill my snout....
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Yes, some of those are backups and yes I'm aware that I've previously owned and sold some of these to you.
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I started out with a Kent Infinity Silvertex and used that exclusively for maybe a year or more. I stumped up the readies for a Muhle Silvertip Fibre and very much enjoyed that, seeing my investment as very much worthwhile. After that, many of my reknots were done with PurTech as that was pretty much the only knot available (other than the one screw-in 21mm Muhle Silvertip Fibre) from Virginia Sheng. I reknotted quite a lot of Ever-Ready brushes and took some joy in pulling out those old nylon wire knots from the '50s and popping in a modern synthetic.I've not used any of the newer generation of synth brushes like APShaveCo's Synbad, SilkSmoke, the new PAA ones, or the Simpsons Trafalgar series brushes all of which are rated really highly.
I own quite a few different Yaqi synths - including Plissoft, Tuxedo and Faux Horse knots. They all make a superb lather, and work really well with all soaps. I've found the first one I bought the humble Yaqi Plissoft to be the one I end up reaching for more than the others.
First bit of correct, second not so. Cheap consumer credit my friend! Doing my bit for the British economyDunno about being the 'Most handsome man on TSR', but you might well be the richest.
I said 'no more soaps' on 3rd March. Then along came the Connaught EU clearance and I succumbed - like a junkie in a poppy field. 3 times I went back to fill my snout....
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Yes, some of those are backups and yes I'm aware that I've previously owned and sold some of these to you.
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