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Post by wchnu on Feb 15, 2012 3:13:30 GMT -6
Has anyone tried a horse hair brush? I see where they are affordable at $18 each. That is not a bad price at all but a bit steep not knowing what to expect. Can anyone help out here. I am on the fence about it.
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Post by Alan on Feb 15, 2012 3:19:50 GMT -6
Thought about getting one myself but never did. I too would be curious as to how they perform.
Alan
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Post by wchnu on Feb 15, 2012 3:30:03 GMT -6
Thought about getting one myself but never did. I too would be curious as to how they perform. Alan I am really thinking about hitting the buy button on this one. We'll see what shakes out here.
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Post by Possum on Feb 15, 2012 6:59:07 GMT -6
I have no interest in a horse hair brush. Just have enough trouble mastering the lathering technique with my various badger and boar brushes.
Would be interesting to hear from someone just how well they make lather. Best for making lather in a mug? What about face lathering?
Someone out there surely will be challenged to buy one and give it a test and then report back to us. Please!
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Post by ShadowsDad on Feb 15, 2012 17:29:44 GMT -6
I've had my finger hovering over the buy button for some time now also. I don't have one yet.
The word I have is that it's somewhere between a badger and a boar in feel.
They come in 50/50 and a higher percentage of mane hairs. The softer brushes are the latter and they cost more.
As with any brush the loft and knot diameter mean quite a bit. A dewcent face latherer would be a 50mm loft and 20mm knot.
Now, having written all of that, I'd like to have someone confirm what I think I gleaned from various sources. That's what keeps my finger off of the buy button. That, plus I really have enough brushes. But I don't have a horse brush...yet.
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Post by SharpSpine on Feb 15, 2012 17:47:11 GMT -6
I have a horsehair, it's this one. I use it primarily for face lathering though due to it's initial scritchiness I did bowl lather with it quite a bit. I even lathered my wife's legs a couple times before it finally was soft enough to switch back to face lathering with it. This brush has completely sidelined my boar brush (a Semogue 1250, no slouch itself). I definitely prefer my badgers still, though the Vie-Long has moved ahead of my Shea Moisture black badger brush. It takes some time to break in and start holding more lather. I would need to reload it between passes initially. It's now soft at the tips with quite a bit of backbone and can easily load any hard soap. I've read that the tips continue to get softer with more and more use, but only time will tell if that's true. So far though, it seems to be. I'm very glad I have this brush now. I was considering selling it at one point, but then the very next shave there seemed to be a drastic improvement in the softness/scritch ratio. Now I will be holding on to this brush and I'm even contemplating Phil's new Vie-Long LE coming out soon, but we'll see about that. I'm not sure I've hit everything in that paragraph so if you have any questions feel free to fire away.
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Post by wchnu on Feb 15, 2012 17:56:15 GMT -6
Thanks Brian.. I think next paycheck I will invest in one of those.
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Post by RocketMan on Feb 16, 2012 23:57:42 GMT -6
You guys make this seem mighty appealling!!! Not sure I will make the leap right now as I keep putting more than I should into rusty old razors. Sheesh - a new horse hair brush sure does sound good though.
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