Choosing a brush help please!

[Rowdi]

hi guys

Ive seen these two, they are in my price range, the Vulfix is a little more expensive. Is there a big difference? IS either one better for something different ? Apologies for the horrendous cut and paste by the way.

Vulfix Super Badger Brush #374

and

Edwin Jagger 1EJ946SDS Traditional English Best Badger Hair Shaving Brush Faux Ebony Medium With Drip Stand, Black, Medium

Thank you

 

[SliceOfLife]

I'd recommend you get either:

http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Simpson-Special-1-Best-Badger-Shaving-Brush-S1_p_556.html

or

http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Simpsons-Berkeley-Best-Badger-Shaving-Brush-46B_p_544.html


at your price range, a good synthetic brush would be an option also, but I don't use those, so I'll let someone else point you in that direction.


My experience with vulfixes has been that they lack sufficient density to produce a decent badger brush, and my experience with EJ's (a pair of boars) was that they still use trimmed ends on their boars in a day when I thought only the most awful crappy brushes sold for <$1 on the streets of third world countries did, so I've avoided the brand like a plague.

 

[Rowdi]

thank you will check these out !

 

[Rowdi]

and the whipped dog in comparison?

 

[SliceOfLife]

I don't have any experience with whipped dog knots. I stopped making brushes right before he started selling them. I did use a lot of TGN (the golden nib) knots, and their xtra stuffed finest are excellent two band badger knots. I'd actually choose a brush made with those over the two brushes I recommended if you weren't set on three band hair (the hairs are quite different, I like both for different reasons, neither is necessarily better than the other but lots of threads can detail their differences if you dig around). Their three band knots were nice, but I did find I slightly preferred the simpson best knots to the TGN grade A and Super. The TGN silvertip (without grade A or Super classifications) was actually quite poor a couple years back, but I don't know if it has been improved since. I wasn't impressed with TGN's Best grade either.

 

[Rowdi]

thanks Ian will go through their stuff. Being new to all this the variables grow in the decision making process

 

[RVshave]

I've heard plenty of good on WD badgers, I only have a WD Synthetic that I'm very happy with.

 

[Teppanyaki]

Funny, I just posted in another thread that I find my Muhle silvertip fiber v2.0 to be incredibly soft. A really nice brush.

 

[Rowdi]

Thanks guys