If you've used both the 3-band and 2-band D01, or the 2-band and a Rooney Heritage, please tell me your opinion of the softness of the tips of the 2-band D01. I like REALLY soft tips, and if the 2-band is more scritchy than the 3-band D01, then that's a deal breaker for me. My impression from a couple other guys is that the 2-band D01 has more backbone but is not as soft at the tips as the 2-band D01, but I'd like to get some more opinions.
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The Rooney Heritage line is the softest hair you can find IMO. Shavemacs are soft, but a touch scritchy. I thinnk the two and three bands are both very soft, but they have a little bit of scritch. Not alot, but if your going to comepaire the softness to a Heritage its noticably more. A while ago I posted about the softest brands of brushes and was told that vanilla Shavemac silvertip, kent, and a couple others were said to be the most soft, but I had not tried any of them.
For the record I have used both Shavemad DO1's and all three flavors of Heritage. I tend to like medium soft scrubby brushes best, so I lean to the Shavemacs, but the Heritage Stubby XXL is the champ right now between any of them, with the Shavemac D01 two band comming in second for favorite hair grade.
For the record I have used both Shavemad DO1's and all three flavors of Heritage. I tend to like medium soft scrubby brushes best, so I lean to the Shavemacs, but the Heritage Stubby XXL is the champ right now between any of them, with the Shavemac D01 two band comming in second for favorite hair grade.
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Heritage!I forgot to mention that, if your looking for a soft dense brush, Simpson has a great grade in Super. I still think the Heirtage is still softer, but Simpson Super is closer to it than the Shavemac D01's are.
Loric,
I'm sorry for this as I myself look up to you for alot of information when making decisions. I think the D01 three-band is softer feeling than the heritage line from Rooney. Please let me explain my reasoning; at this time I have (or had prior to my sale tonight) a Rooney Heritage XL3 and Alibaba3 and a Shavemac D01 three-Band. Out of the three the backbone goes like this: XL, Alibaba, and Shavemac. The soft face feel goes like this: Shavemac, Alibaba, and a very close third is the XL. I believe the difference from the XL and the Alibaba is the loft, both use the same hair.
So based on this maybe it is a density thing....
Justin
I love my 3 band d01. Not tried a 2band but my 3 is verry soft yet has good backbone.
No offense taken, this is all a YMMV thing. Plus there is the fact that the animal this hair came from has quite a bit to do with the finished product. Density and loft also have as important of an impact on perseved softness.
I had two different D01 24mm three bands, and both were basicly identical. I got nuttsy and wanted it with a different handle, but that was only a couple months appart. Both brushes had some scritch. Hair stock might have rotated before or after that.
As for the two band D01, I hardly find any scrtich in it. However, I lent it to SliceOfLife (so he could try a flat top) who found it to have noticable scritch, like I said YMMV.
Was your Alibaba a thee band? What were the specs on your D01?
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My Shavemac measure's 54mm on the loft and 22mm on the diameter. My Alibaba is a three band...
Justin
Justin
Thanks for the follow up, and the complement on my brush snobory. I almost forgot my manners there for a post!
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Hmm, I'm thinking the loft on the 54mm x 22mm had a lot to do with the face-feel. I can't see it softer than the XL. My 3-band D01s definitly have some scritch, but then again neither have been used more than a few times.
Its possible, but both of my three bands were 24mm by 56mm. The Shavemacs have plenty of backbone so the highish lofts dont seem to make as much impact as it would for other brushes.
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