WÜRM: A modern brush built from a very strange vintage design

The useful part

Damn Fine Shave Shopping Merchants Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements WÜRM, Something You Should Be Curious About... Tools View a Printable Version CaD314 #1 09-30-2026, 05:52 PM Merchant Arizona, USA 1,333 0 1,342 NOW AVAILABLE: http://shor.by/T8k2 [Pls Share This Post!] WÜRM began with one of the strangest vintage shaving brushes we've ever found.

How it works

• Surviving Klenzo records show Lucite lather brushes being sold by Rexall by 1948 and genuine 100% badger Klenzo brushes set in rubber being advertised during the early 1950s.
• Being that you are a fellow Shnerd or Shave Nerd, you might just find the following ramblings of a man, who breathes in way too much essential oil, interesting.
• If you know anything, I'm all ears!) To brush collectors however, KLENZO itself has considerably more history behind it.
• [The exact B1086, however, appears to be remarkably elusive.
• We took that forgotten design, pushed it somewhere far stranger, and brought it back to life.

What to take from it

Wartime shortages and poorly disinfected animal hair created a genuine public-health problem, serious enough that sterilization and labeling requirements became part of the American brush industry. PURE BADGER mattered too, because KLENZO offered brushes in different grades. Despite a surprisingly active community of vintage-brush collectors, I have yet to locate another documented example.

Example or evidence

• [Seriously, it keeps me up at night.] I mean, when I allow my mind to wander...it may have identified a manufacturer, mold maker, supplier, factory, or something else entirely!
• The story behind WÜRM begins with one of the more stranger vintage shaving brushes I have ever come across, the KLENZO B1086!
• Originally made in clear Lucite, the brush has a rectangular footprint and a deeply segmented, accordion-like handle that feels far more mechanical than ornamental.

Details worth keeping

WÜRM, Something You Should Be Curious About... DFS Pyros Collaboration with HAGS & The Shave Supply. Also, shout out to Brian "The Archivist" Foley for my B1086!

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