In addition to the boar+badger 11047, Omega makes a baby badger brush (not, I hasten to add, a baby-badger brush), with a knot somewhat larger (in terms of bloom) and coarser than the Wee Scot. The Wee Scot uses extremely fine badger hair: along the lines of the proverbial frog’s hair.
The small Omega badger has ample capacity: load o’ lather for three or more passes. And the lather really was quite good: I used the Vanilla/Eucalyptus/Mint Shaving Soap from LAShavingSoaps.com, the same company that made yesterday’s tiny sample puck. The fragrance is light but quite pleasant and the lather, as noted, was excellent.
Three passes with my iKon open-comb—their second model, in fact—holding a previously used Gillette 7 O’Clock SharpEdge blade. I had the razor gold–plated after using it a while, partly to test out plating services. A BBS result after three quite pleasant passes, then a good splash of Paul Sebastian aftershave, and the day begins. Overmorrow is Saturday, and I’m looking forward to it.
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