My shaving brush collection, #2 the badgers
In part one we dealt with the boar, horse and synthetic brushes. Now it is time to deal with the badgers. As you can see I am a victim of […]
Trumpers
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 […]
The Real Shaving Co. products
Some of the biggest names in traditional shaving manufacture nothing, they are merely retailers, they put their brand name on a range of products made by other people. And the […]
Some recent shaving related videos
Feather of Japan make famously sharp DE razor blades. This is a corporate video that contains some interesting footage of blade manufacture. I have mentioned Mantic59s excellent videos on here […]
English shaving brushes, Morris & Forndran etc
A lot of people have recently seen the light and come over to real shaving. They see the products and industry as they are but they don’t see this history, […]
£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 […]
The global nature of real shaving kit
One of the really bad things about the multibladed system razors is that they try and force a communist like conformity. Supposedly we are all the same and must all […]
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 […]
If you are in London on the 22nd. Discounts at Truefitt and Hill (also online)
I have written here before about the famous grooming shops in St James’s in London and especially the three “Ts” of Trumpers, Taylors of Old Bond Street (TOBS) and Truefitt […]
Frank Shaving short lofted brushes
Whilst the reaction to Frank Shaving brushes has been very favourable indeed and many people are enjoying these high quality badger brushes having paid very low prices for them, there […]