Custom shaving brushes from Penchetta and Penworks
Anthony Turchetta owns an insurance company in Arizona but very obviously likes making things of beauty with his own hands. So he also owns The Golden Nib (TGN), Penworks, Penchetta Pens […]
Badger
A beginner’s guide to traditional shaving kit
Firstly a disclaimer, the variety of traditional shaving kit on sale is so vast that the choices are effectively infinite. And because you are different to the next man so […]
£1,100 water badger brush at Trumper’s
This water badger brush with a black buffalo horn handle and gold lettering is for sale at Trumper’s St. James’s Shop at 1 Duke of York Street for £1,100 and […]
Cheap (but not nasty) shaving brushes
When it comes to shaving brushes you definitely don’t get what you pay for. Some brands buy their stock in China and then add on enormous profit margins to inflate […]
Some European shaving brush manufacturers
Firstly a disclaimer, this is not a highly researched academic paper, just a romp around some of what I find interesting. There is a whole lot more information on Fido’s […]
My custom shaving brush
A while back now I bought a handsome looking secondhand shaving brush on eBay, the handle was very fine marble but the knot could have been better. When it arrived […]
Old, secondhand, vintage shaving brushes
Here you can see a few pictures of some of the old shaving brushes I have acquired in my travels. On the front row are some Culmak brushes that are […]
The New Forest 2211 is now available
Fido is a retired senior local government officer who has taken up a series of interests to fill his retirement, which he blogs about. Initially this was bells, the sort […]
Simpson’s shaving brushes #1
Simpson’s shaving brushes are amongst the finest in the world, possibly the finest. And today they are one of the very few traditional British shaving brushes actually made in these […]
Frank Shaving Butterscotch Silvertip
In an earlier article I wrote about buying a shaving brush from China. The Frank Shaving “Finest Pure Badger Hair Shaving Brush Faux Ivory Handle” for $9.99 (£6.57) turned out […]