Water Quality (Lather)

littleaussiebleeder said:
Okay... you blokes have convinced me... what (reasonably priced yet minimum quality) synthetic would you recommend? I currently have a pure badger and a boar (which I'm not all that enthused about.) Thanks!
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Well the knots seem to be super easy to get, so it depends on:
size of the knot
the quality of the handle
how much customisation you are after...

@bald as showed me a small Chinese synthetic which cost ~10$ delivered - I don't think you can beat that price and the knot looked and felt as good as any other synths I have experienced before. It is just very small - I'd say in the 20mm region?

The RazoRoock offerings mentioned by @SpeedyPC seem to the be Vogue at the moment...not all in stock though and I have no idea about the shipping costs.

If you like large - my Stirling Kong is certainly that and well priced (~25$) - but I would definitely order some soaps to really make it worth your while...

And then there is custom handle: Wolf Whiskers look nice, Nathan Clark does some stellar handles, I received my Doug Korn handle today and it is out of this world...the world is your oyster - but they are not cheap any more...I would say 50-65US$ for the handle + another 20$ for the knot + shipping to you.

Now @Drubbing might say this is a waste of money - all I can say is: when I showed my wife my new Doug Korn handle today her words were something like: I didn't know there are so beautiful and If I had known there are so beautiful I would have gotten you one of those (my answer was of course there is always another birthday and Christmas coming up)

So it depends what you are after and how much money you want to throw at it.
 
littleaussiebleeder said:
Okay... you blokes have convinced me... what (reasonably priced yet minimum quality) synthetic would you recommend? I currently have a pure badger and a boar (which I'm not all that enthused about.) Thanks!
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if you don't mind shelling $60 (including shipping), I'd recommend the STF2 23mm on tvbshaving. Otherwise you'll be looking at plisson knots. If you're keen on the italian barber plissoft then I wouldn't mind selling mine.
 
littleaussiebleeder said:
Okay... you blokes have convinced me... what (reasonably priced yet minimum quality) synthetic would you recommend? I currently have a pure badger and a boar (which I'm not all that enthused about.) Thanks!
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There's quite a few around at the moment. I have the Plisson, the Aesop/Jagger, the cheap Body shop, and just picked up the Epsilon with my Myrsol order. The Epsilon is a very good price, but probably needs other purchases to justify bothering. Got a great balance of firmness and loft.
 
pyrokov said:
if you don't mind shelling $60 (including shipping), I'd recommend the STF2 23mm on tvbshaving. Otherwise you'll be looking at plisson knots. If you're keen on the italian barber plissoft then I wouldn't mind selling mine.
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Which Plissoft brush are you referring to Pyrokov? The Razorock Plissoft one or something different?
 
Drubbing said:
There's quite a few around at the moment. I have the Plisson, the Aesop/Jagger, the cheap Body shop, and just picked up the Epsilon with my Myrsol order. The Epsilon is a very good price, but probably needs other purchases to justify bothering. Got a great balance of firmness and loft.
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Forgot about the Epsilon! G&C has a very sensible shipping price for 1 brush - it's only 5.60EUR for shipping and the brush would cost you (if you use the G&C code) 37.55EUR delivered...
 
Drubbing said:
just picked up the Epsilon with my Myrsol order. The Epsilon is a very good price, but probably needs other purchases to justify bothering. Got a great balance of firmness and loft.
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huh, I didn't notice you mentioning the epsilon somehow. What kind of synthetic fiber does vie long (they're the ones that make epsilons right?) use? They look like an offcolour STF. How's the density?
 
pyrokov said:
huh, I didn't notice you mentioning the epsilon somehow. What kind of synthetic fiber does vie long (they're the ones that make epsilons right?) use? They look like an offcolour STF. How's the density?
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Looks pretty much like the same ones as in the Jagger brushes. Seems to be the same specs as well. Haven't used them back to back, but the Epsilon does feel a bit firmer
 
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