OK, I'm shopping around for a badger brush. Looked into an Omega 636 and thought, wow, a silvertip for $45! To good to be true? So I looked at badger hair grading in the Wiki, becuase I have discovered that "Silvertip" isn't always a companies highest grade of brush, and looked up Omega. They show Pure, Fine and Silvertip Bristle.
Is this different from any other silvertip "hair" or is this just how Omega lables theirs burshes. I know that the hairs used to make a brush are "bristles" but I gues I'm trying to find out if this is a lesser grade hair.
It's great that they grade badger hair but it needs a standard that the manufacturers stick to or the grading is kind of meaning less IMHO. Let's face it, the great Rooney has two grades above a silvertip, EJ & Kent call "Pure", "Best", according to the wiki and some people argue they have a "Pure" grade which pops up on vendors sites. I think some just don't want to admit they bought "Pure" but maybe I'm wrong and their is a difference between Pure and Best in their line of brushes. Savile and Simpson apparently call their silvertips "Super". Ahhh my heads going ot explode......
Can someone shed some light on this to clear it up or is this just a fog created by the brush manufactures for marketing/pricing purposes?
I'm down to the EJ Med in best or the Omega 636 Silvertip in my decision. Both are less than $50. But am I comparing a Pure Badger to a true Silvertip?
Is this different from any other silvertip "hair" or is this just how Omega lables theirs burshes. I know that the hairs used to make a brush are "bristles" but I gues I'm trying to find out if this is a lesser grade hair.
It's great that they grade badger hair but it needs a standard that the manufacturers stick to or the grading is kind of meaning less IMHO. Let's face it, the great Rooney has two grades above a silvertip, EJ & Kent call "Pure", "Best", according to the wiki and some people argue they have a "Pure" grade which pops up on vendors sites. I think some just don't want to admit they bought "Pure" but maybe I'm wrong and their is a difference between Pure and Best in their line of brushes. Savile and Simpson apparently call their silvertips "Super". Ahhh my heads going ot explode......
Can someone shed some light on this to clear it up or is this just a fog created by the brush manufactures for marketing/pricing purposes?
I'm down to the EJ Med in best or the Omega 636 Silvertip in my decision. Both are less than $50. But am I comparing a Pure Badger to a true Silvertip?
