Evening gents:
Ok, so now that I have your attention from the facetous title, no, this brush is not a tad small. At an overall height of 122mm and a knot size of 31mm, its anything but.
As I arrived home today, I had a nice suprise in the mail, a box from Kent brushes. I bought directly from the UK website for that company, which was much less expensive than some of the North American options. This took about 10 working days to arrive.
The product arrived well-packed in the company's signature crimson hard case, which unsnaps to ceremoniously reveal a beautiful shaving brush, a silvertip badger of impressive proportions.
The handle is a perfect fit for my large hand, as I am accustomed to a larger shaving brush handle. The BK 12 has nothing tricky or unusual about its handle, and I find its an excellent feel, vis weight, proportion, etc. By comparison,I have a Simpson's Chubby 1, and its an excellent brush but personally, I find the handle a bit small for my hand. The Kent BK 12 does not suffer from being too small.
The brush itself has about three badger's worth of hair in it. When I tried to get it into my one-size-fits-all nickel brushstand, it was a gentle struggle to avoid having stray hairs sticking out from the sides. As it is, the brush in the stand looks like Hagrid in a small suit with a too-small collar, bushy beard exploding over the top of his necktie.....
So, I washed and prepped with Trumper's pre-shave oil, followed by a good lathering using the absolutely incomperable Cella sapone. Using a Merkur HD loaded with a Gillette 7 o'clock, I did the first shave with the grain, folowed by a second lathering and passes across the grain. Finished up with a cool wet cloth, Clubman Bay Rum and some Clinique post-shave balm.
Wow. Nice result.
Anyways, this is a big brush, and it is floppy when lathering. I find that even with this soft-flop quality, it does a great job in brishstrokes of working the skin and covering the face with lather. It just doesn't stab you with bristles like some of my other brushes do.
If you're interested in a large handled, large knot brush, this is a real pleasure to use. I'll check in again in a month or so for a follow up.
Best,
Chris
Ok, so now that I have your attention from the facetous title, no, this brush is not a tad small. At an overall height of 122mm and a knot size of 31mm, its anything but.
As I arrived home today, I had a nice suprise in the mail, a box from Kent brushes. I bought directly from the UK website for that company, which was much less expensive than some of the North American options. This took about 10 working days to arrive.
The product arrived well-packed in the company's signature crimson hard case, which unsnaps to ceremoniously reveal a beautiful shaving brush, a silvertip badger of impressive proportions.
The handle is a perfect fit for my large hand, as I am accustomed to a larger shaving brush handle. The BK 12 has nothing tricky or unusual about its handle, and I find its an excellent feel, vis weight, proportion, etc. By comparison,I have a Simpson's Chubby 1, and its an excellent brush but personally, I find the handle a bit small for my hand. The Kent BK 12 does not suffer from being too small.
The brush itself has about three badger's worth of hair in it. When I tried to get it into my one-size-fits-all nickel brushstand, it was a gentle struggle to avoid having stray hairs sticking out from the sides. As it is, the brush in the stand looks like Hagrid in a small suit with a too-small collar, bushy beard exploding over the top of his necktie.....
So, I washed and prepped with Trumper's pre-shave oil, followed by a good lathering using the absolutely incomperable Cella sapone. Using a Merkur HD loaded with a Gillette 7 o'clock, I did the first shave with the grain, folowed by a second lathering and passes across the grain. Finished up with a cool wet cloth, Clubman Bay Rum and some Clinique post-shave balm.
Wow. Nice result.
Anyways, this is a big brush, and it is floppy when lathering. I find that even with this soft-flop quality, it does a great job in brishstrokes of working the skin and covering the face with lather. It just doesn't stab you with bristles like some of my other brushes do.
If you're interested in a large handled, large knot brush, this is a real pleasure to use. I'll check in again in a month or so for a follow up.
Best,
Chris
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