Shaving brushes

[runswithsizzers]

Shot through a barber shop window in middle America. March 2022. Kodak T-Max 400 exposed in a Pentax MX at EI320 using a 35mm f/2.0 SMC Pentax M-series lens. Film was developed in Legacy Pro EcoPro (similar to Xtol) at 1+1 dilution for 9:15 at 68*F. Negatives were digitized with a 16MP Fuji XT-1, using a Rodenstock APO-Rodagon D 75mm f/4.0 process lens. Post processed using Negative Pro and Adobe Lightroom.

 

[Vaughn]

Nicely done.

I can't find mine (obviously). But I did use one back in 1977 when I did not have a beard (pumping gasoline at the Grand Canyon -- no beards allowed). Oh yeah...and for a month when I turned 50, just for the halibut.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I stay away from those places because I have had some close shaves.

 

[runswithsizzers]

Nicely done.

I can't find mine (obviously). But I did use one back in 1977 when I did not have a beard (pumping gasoline at the Grand Canyon -- no beards allowed). Oh yeah...and for a month when I turned 50, just for the halibut.

Thank you.

I still shave every day, but my hair is getting kind of long in the back. If anyone wants to see my hippie credentials, I can always show them this one from back in the Old Days:

 

[Vaughn]

When I was working at the Grand Canyon (where beards were not allowed and I'd get warning notices if my mushtash drooped below the corners of my mouth), a singer would come by the employee pub occasionally and the refrain of one of our favorite songs had the lines:

But I'm still hairy on the inside
And I shampoo it with beer most every night.

I finally got rid of the ponytail after a few years of packing mules, building trails and such. But the beard was good for firefighting. If it was smoking, I was too close to the flames -- and it kept the direct heat off my lower face and neck.

 

[Sirius Glass]

When I was working at the Grand Canyon (where beards were not allowed and I'd get warning notices if my mushtash drooped below the corners of my mouth), a singer would come by the employee pub occasionally and the refrain of one of our favorite songs had the lines:

But I'm still hairy on the inside
And I shampoo it with beer most every night.

I finally got rid of the ponytail after a few years of packing mules, building trails and such. But the beard was good for firefighting. If it was smoking, I was too close to the flames -- and it kept the direct heat off my lower face and neck.

Beards can be great for skiing, the beard holds an ice crust that keeps the wind and cold off the face and the face dry.

 

[Eric Rose]

I think a lot of us of a certain age went through our Grizzly Adam's phase.

 

[Trask]

I use a shaving brush (badger) every time I shave, have done for years. Much preferable to buying cans of shaving cream that create recycling concerns...

 

[Vaughn]

Beards can be great for skiing, the beard holds an ice crust that keeps the wind and cold off the face and the face dry.

Working on the trails in the summer, I'd dip my beard in a creek for the evaporative cooling...

 

[Tel]

I use a shaving brush (badger) every time I shave, have done for years. Much preferable to buying cans of shaving cream that create recycling concerns...

Yup; shaving brush and a bar of Ivory is all you need.

 

[VinceInMT]

Very nice photo.

I’ve never had a shaving brush myself, of course, I quit shaving in 1975 the day I got out of the army. My kids and wife have never seen me without it.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Working on the trails in the summer, I'd dip my beard in a creek for the evaporative cooling...

That is a new concept for me. I will start doing that!

 

[Vaughn]

That is a new concept for me. I will start doing that!

I worked in a wilderness where I could drink directly from the creeks and springs -- the beard would get wet anyway...I just didn't shake out the water!

 

[Sirius Glass]

I worked in a wilderness where I could drink directly from the creeks and springs -- the beard would get wet anyway...I just didn't shake out the water!

But doesn't the bear $#!+ in the woods? Maybe near or in the creek?

 

[Vaughn]

Reminds me of the hearing, "I don't drink water...fish f#@k in it."

A part of every glass of water we have ever drank has gone through a dinosaur at some point....

 

[Roger Thoms]

I worked in a wilderness where I could drink directly from the creeks and springs -- the beard would get wet anyway...I just didn't shake out the water!

My Grand parents were ranchers in Montana and had an upper property in the mountains for summer grazing. The property had a cabin and a nice creak running through it. This was in the sixties and as kids we would drink from the creek. One trip after drinking from the creek we found a dead cow lying in the creek about a hundred yard up from were we had just drunk. Lol, water tasted fine, didn’t get sick but that pretty much ended my drinking from creek days.

Roger

 

[Vaughn]

That was the difference where I worked -- no uphill cows, sheep, or people.
First family backpack trip, we went up to Young Lakes in Yosemite. We stepped aside near a creek crossing to let a mule train pass and after watching several mules let loose in the creek, we knew which side of the trail to get our water from... this was long before thought was given to purify Sierra water. And of course at the beginning of the invasion into the Sierras by the likes of me in the 60s.

 

[Chuck1]

this is a great thread
shaving is expensive (like the ad)
razor burn really burns.
I buzz it off once in a while