Wonder how many Finest they have left? I imagine it isn't the final count, but it seems this to be the 3rd time they've listed a bunch of Finest up. Funny that they'd have a bunch of Finest in that Polo-esque shape as well. Great for whoever is looking for some Finest though! That Emillion in Finest they posted awhile back was mighty tempting...
).Oddly, I really like this one-price scheme...since knot size is more of a personal preference than a good unto itself, and bigger isn't always better, this way we can make a buying decision based on what we like, not what we can afford (assuming we can afford one at all
This approach might seem to fly in the face of many posts I have read in the past on B&B that "the high priced brushes aren't more expensive because they're better, but that the hair is rarer. Hair that is rarer is more expensive."Oddly, I really like this one-price scheme...since knot size is more of a personal preference than a good unto itself, and bigger isn't always better, this way we can make a buying decision based on what we like, not what we can afford (assuming we can afford one at all
This approach might seem to fly in the face of many posts I have read in the past on B&B that "the high priced brushes aren't more expensive because they're better, but that the hair is rarer. Hair that is rarer is more expensive."
To me, if a knot size increases by 3-4mm, which takes a much higher quantity of hair to fill, can be sold at the same price of a brush that has half the hair, then the smaller brush is overpriced. If it's the hair that is rare and expensive, how can twice as much of it be sold for the same price?
Fantastic point. I wondered about that for a long time. However there was a post not to long ago where someone did the math about knot size to hair needed, and bigger knots took substantially more than smaller knots. Also as you went up the size scale each increase in 1mm of knot made more and more stuffing needed to go around the outside circle that 1 mm took up. It had some fantastic charts to illustrate. I wish I could find it in search but I dont remember the title
), then the area of the knot base would be given by pi*r^2. Assuming the hair is of uniform density through the knot (again, probably not true, but close enough), then that extra area should translate into extra hair needed:
Since the 24mm knot is obviously in higher demand, they should have tacked on a slightly higher (token) price on the 29mm brushes (say $339) to inject an artificial perceived higher value on the bigger but harder to sell brush.
Fantastic point. I wondered about that for a long time. However there was a post not to long ago where someone did the math about knot size to hair needed, and bigger knots took substantially more than smaller knots. Also as you went up the size scale each increase in 1mm of knot made more and more stuffing needed to go around the outside circle that 1 mm took up. It had some fantastic charts to illustrate. I wish I could find it in search but I dont remember the title
The two bigger knots I saw earlier today (the only two I looked at) were not 28 but 29 and 29.5. That 29.5 must be close to half again as big as a 24. That's a lot of hair--particularly if that hair is so fantastic that many posters that own it can only say "it's hard to describe, but it's the best."
The two bigger knots I saw earlier today (the only two I looked at) were not 28 but 29 and 29.5. That 29.5 must be close to half again as big as a 24. That's a lot of hair--particularly if that hair is so fantastic that many posters that own it can only say "it's hard to describe, but it's the best."
Pretty much on the nose, actually...(29.5^2) / (24^2) = 1.51085069, according to Google Calculator.
