I've been buying up old, vintage brushes... thinking about getting into restoring them with synthetic or horse hair knots.
I notice alot of older brushes are smaller. My dad also shaves with a small badger brush. But the norm now days on shave forums seems to be at least 24mm... is there any particular reason for this?
I shaved with a vintage drugstore badger yesterday that was only a 22mm knot but there was enough lather for over two passes. But I tried a 24mm SynBad recently and it was just frustrating in comparison- too much cream and water to make a decent lather, and it had a little too much backbone.
I notice alot of older brushes are smaller. My dad also shaves with a small badger brush. But the norm now days on shave forums seems to be at least 24mm... is there any particular reason for this?
I shaved with a vintage drugstore badger yesterday that was only a 22mm knot but there was enough lather for over two passes. But I tried a 24mm SynBad recently and it was just frustrating in comparison- too much cream and water to make a decent lather, and it had a little too much backbone.