Favorite Knot Size?

[BradSears]

It's been a while since I've seen this question come up for discussion. So, I thought it might be worth raising again. FWIW, I started out with a 24 mm brush, but soon fell to the siren song of a 30 mm. A few years later, I switched to 28's, which has been my preferred size for past seven or eight. Recently however, I added a 25 mm to my rotation. And while I still enjoy my 28's, the 25 seems to work just as well while using less soap. (Not that I'm cheap or anything. )

Your thoughts?

 

[haggis]

22 - 24 seems to be the sweet spot for me. I have some 26's that I love love love for their face feel and their handles, but if I use a smaller brush with a similarly luxe knot, I prefer the smaller brush.

 

[EclipseRedRing]

My upper limit is 25mm. Every man and his dog seem to offer nothing but 28mm or 30mm leviathan brushes with heavily treated gel knots these days so I stick with Simpson and Semogue.

 

[McBlade]

24mm synthetic is a perfect size.

 

[Scorpio93]

26mm both for synth and badger seems to be my sweet spot. Saying they, I haven’t tried anything bigger yet unfortunately. Can’t imagine going bigger than 28mm.

 

[Ron R]

24mm is a nice size for Synthetic brushes and have brushes from 22 to 26mm and have no desire to go larger.
Loft is just as important as knot diameter and it seems the MFG's have that zeroed in good. To low a loft makes the knot stiff and higher loft makes the brush a softer touch.
There is a @BradSears that makes beautiful brushes, wondering if you are that fellow.

 

[Rudy Vey]

Scroll down a bit, similar question was just raise some time ago:

Knot size- is bigger better

i don't have a large collection of brushes like many in here and all of them are i would say on the smaller size 22-24 mm. I bought a Simpsons T3 Trafalger a few months ago and thought the brush was huge- turns out its a real lather flinger so i don't use it that much and went back to my...

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[Contact_vs_Feedback]

I'm shifting towards 24-26 mm knots after experiencing the 27-32 mm knots.

I got a Chubby 3 in Best Badger and that is a great brush to treat myself once in a while.

A Zenith Manchurian @27 mm is inbound but I'm leaning towards the SOC Mistura and SOC Finest Badger both 24 mm.

In synthetic, both 24 mm and 28 mm work well for me.

 

[Beefdrippings]

24-26mm is my (synth) sweet spot but not opposed to go a bit either way. The smaller knots seem to need more work in my experience

 

[lancre]

Agnostic on size, but most of my favorites are in the 22-27 mm range.

 

[slim62]

Almost always face lather...20 - 22, loft 40 - 45 preferred but like some up to 50.

 

[SharpieB]

22-28mm. I am all over the place.

24-26 with a lost about double is perfect for me though.

 

[xiletero]

24

 

[SgtCrppls]

If I had to pick one size I would say 26mm, but for me it depends on what kind of knot,
Bulb or Fan
2 Band Silvertip or 3 band , or Manchurian

 

[old_school]

20mm to 24mm. Face lather with badger.

 

[VerbaVolant]

24 mm
Fan

 

[ShavingPanda]

My favourite is 24 to 26 mm fans.

The smallest I have is 22 mm, the largest I have is 28 mm (but I did have a 30 mm before moving it on). I am a near-daily shaver, I find that the 24 to 26 mm fans are a good size for face lathering. I do like my 28 mm and it's a luxurious brush, but I find is a tad big for daily shaving, more of a weekend luxury. Favourite to me is something I can use daily.

 

[Hachet]

24mm.

 

[Mentholated]

All of my brushes are 30mm, I would probably go bigger if such sizes were readily available, especially with some synthetic knots which seem a lot smaller then their listed size. I have an Omega Roma brush listed as 31mm but feels more like a 26mm or smaller in the hand.

 

[Tomo]

24mm +/- 2mm