Hello, gents!
I posted this a few days ago but it was considered as self-promotion. But I received permission to re-do the post in this section since the vendor is not registered here.
This is an artisan shaving brush made in Mexico. One of the few brush makers we have here: Don Ernesto.
Hair type: 2-band silvertip badger.
Knot: 24 mm
Loft: 52mm
Handle: Mexican desert ironwood (from the Sonoran Desert)
Here are some pictures:
Brush brand-new:
After a month of daily use:
Another pic:
From another angle on its stand along my Böker Edelweiss:
The tips are very soft and white. It has a very firm backbone; strong enough for soaps. It retains water very well too.
The handle as I mentioned is made from Mexican Ironwood (from the Sonoran Desert) which has very beautiful wood patterns and a colororing that goes from a very dark almost black brown hue that then changes to a reddish cognac-looking color. It's also quite a heavy handle which weighs about 90 grams making it a hefty brush. It's also thick, measuring 40mm at its widest, 32mm at its narrowest and its height is 60 mm. This size of handle makes it very comfortable for medium-sized to large hands and it's great for bowl lathering. However, given its firm backbone it's a very good brush for soaps as well.
Here are some pics in action...
Some soap build-up:
Bowl-lathering time!
Whipped-cream-like lather:
Yet, another pic of that creamy lather. Have a look at the wet desert ironwood handle's colors too:
You can find these at Home 5 - https://classic-shaving-supplies.com/
"Classic Shaving Supplies" is the name of Don Ernesto's son (Guillermo Jiménez) shaving products' company.
I hope you'd like to get one of these brushes. They're sold by Guillermo Jiménez on the aforementioned website or you can contact him directly on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Classic-sha...18038966728902
His father makes the brushes using a wide variety of woods: desert ironwood, bogwood, American hickory, olivewood, ebony, amboina and some more.
This brush was (shipping within Mexico) $51 or $52 USD (around $1,300 Mexican pesos). But I have no idea how much shipping costs to foreign countries would be.
So, there you have another good option for artisan-made shaving brushes.
I thought I should share this with you.
Kind regards,
CoffeeAddict24
I posted this a few days ago but it was considered as self-promotion. But I received permission to re-do the post in this section since the vendor is not registered here.
This is an artisan shaving brush made in Mexico. One of the few brush makers we have here: Don Ernesto.
Hair type: 2-band silvertip badger.
Knot: 24 mm
Loft: 52mm
Handle: Mexican desert ironwood (from the Sonoran Desert)
Here are some pictures:
Brush brand-new:
After a month of daily use:
Another pic:
From another angle on its stand along my Böker Edelweiss:
The tips are very soft and white. It has a very firm backbone; strong enough for soaps. It retains water very well too.
The handle as I mentioned is made from Mexican Ironwood (from the Sonoran Desert) which has very beautiful wood patterns and a colororing that goes from a very dark almost black brown hue that then changes to a reddish cognac-looking color. It's also quite a heavy handle which weighs about 90 grams making it a hefty brush. It's also thick, measuring 40mm at its widest, 32mm at its narrowest and its height is 60 mm. This size of handle makes it very comfortable for medium-sized to large hands and it's great for bowl lathering. However, given its firm backbone it's a very good brush for soaps as well.
Here are some pics in action...
Some soap build-up:
Bowl-lathering time!
Whipped-cream-like lather:
Yet, another pic of that creamy lather. Have a look at the wet desert ironwood handle's colors too:
You can find these at Home 5 - https://classic-shaving-supplies.com/
"Classic Shaving Supplies" is the name of Don Ernesto's son (Guillermo Jiménez) shaving products' company.
I hope you'd like to get one of these brushes. They're sold by Guillermo Jiménez on the aforementioned website or you can contact him directly on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Classic-sha...18038966728902
His father makes the brushes using a wide variety of woods: desert ironwood, bogwood, American hickory, olivewood, ebony, amboina and some more.
This brush was (shipping within Mexico) $51 or $52 USD (around $1,300 Mexican pesos). But I have no idea how much shipping costs to foreign countries would be.
So, there you have another good option for artisan-made shaving brushes.
I thought I should share this with you.
Kind regards,
CoffeeAddict24