Gentlemen,
I feel like a real heel for raining on ChiefBroom's auction so I wanted to put out some info on my brush. I bought this directly from Lee last month and I paid full price for it. Lee indicated to me during our email volley that his supplier no longer produces this "Moon Java" material and after some difficulty was able to offer me this "Chief" style brush which he described as a prototype for the B&B group buy. I kind of feel like he was saving it for something special and didn't want to give it up, but I was pretty persistent. I guess I know now what that special thing was.
There are some differences between my brush and the one at auction. As you can see, mine is 26mm and labelled "1 Finest Badger" on the back. Mine appears to have a loft of 49 or 50mm, but I'm not sure of how to measure this accurately. Now as soon as I claim that these are the only two MJ Chief's in existence someone else will come forward with theirs,
. During my wait for this brush, and obsessively hunting for more information, I did find who the supplier was and that they indeed no longer offered this material. I can't find that information now but I will update this thread when I do.
While I suppose that it is possible that the supplier could put the material back into production, I do believe that MJ's are increasingly rare in any brush style and these are very hard to come by.
I feel like a real heel for raining on ChiefBroom's auction so I wanted to put out some info on my brush. I bought this directly from Lee last month and I paid full price for it. Lee indicated to me during our email volley that his supplier no longer produces this "Moon Java" material and after some difficulty was able to offer me this "Chief" style brush which he described as a prototype for the B&B group buy. I kind of feel like he was saving it for something special and didn't want to give it up, but I was pretty persistent. I guess I know now what that special thing was.
There are some differences between my brush and the one at auction. As you can see, mine is 26mm and labelled "1 Finest Badger" on the back. Mine appears to have a loft of 49 or 50mm, but I'm not sure of how to measure this accurately. Now as soon as I claim that these are the only two MJ Chief's in existence someone else will come forward with theirs,
. During my wait for this brush, and obsessively hunting for more information, I did find who the supplier was and that they indeed no longer offered this material. I can't find that information now but I will update this thread when I do. While I suppose that it is possible that the supplier could put the material back into production, I do believe that MJ's are increasingly rare in any brush style and these are very hard to come by.
Very nice!
