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Badger hair shaving brushes.

  • 06-10-2012 10:25am
    #1
    kneemos
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    Where do they get the hair for these?


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  • #2
    Kenny Logins
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    China?


  • #3
    Tazium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 910 ✭✭✭Tazium


    Chinese Badgers. :D


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I'm going to ask a possibly stupid question.Are they shaved or killed?


  • #5
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    OP, there's actually a shaving forum on boards.ie here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1103

    Plenty of people on it use old style razors and shaving brushes (incl myself) so you'll likely get a more informed answer on it...perhaps as a mod to move your thread to the other forum.

    Off hand they are farmed badgers but not sure if badger is killed or not, at a guess i'd say perhaps yes it is.


  • #6
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    I'd pay real money to see someone try and shear a badger!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_brush#Sources_of_brush_hair


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  • #7
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Procrastastudy wrote: »
    I'd pay real money to see someone try and shear a badger!

    So would I.But all things are possible.


  • #8
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    kneemos wrote: »
    So would I.But all things are possible.

    You might reconsider that if you ever come across one!

    Even a cheap synthetic shaving brush and cheap shaving soap will gives you such a better shave then slapping on Gillette with you hands. Much cheaper too!


  • #9
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Now I'm wondering about moleskin trousers...


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    Nobody farms badgers.. they'd burrow out :)

    Badger hair is used in brushes, flys for fishing, sporrans and some other uses but in all its very small quantity. The badgers would be dead and skinned. Irish and British badgers should be handled with extreme care because of tuberculosis.


  • #11
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nobody farms badgers.. they'd burrow out :)

    Badger hair is used in brushes, flys for fishing, sporrans and some other uses but in all its very small quantity. The badgers would be dead and skinned. Irish and British badgers should be handled with extreme care because of tuberculosis.

    They are protected in Europe - most of the stuff comes from China where they are a pest and regally culled - from my googling this afternoon.


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  • #12
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    Now I'm wondering about moleskin trousers...

    What about moleskin notebooks :eek:

    :pac::pac:


  • #13
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Gah ... this reminds me of when I found out Mince pie didn't have the moo cow type mince in it. :D


  • #14
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    The question pops up a fair bit on shaving forums..

    I remember this particular thread from Badger & Blade: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/40248-Badger-Farm

    That thread goes off in all sorts of directions, links wise.. and at least some of the brush providers are upfront about the fate of the animal.

    I'm under no illusion that the animal is killed, but having read various links, the hair is a by-product for the provision of meat, in fairly poor areas of China, mainly. I have no problems with that.

    'Farms', Channel 4 did a report on animals in China and I do remember seeing caged badgers, the cages more or less being the same size as the animal, sadly.

    Knots, a site I've not purchased from, yet.. but one I've browsed and mooched a fair bit. Worth a visit.

    http://www.emsplace.com/


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