Summer Brush Sabbatical :: 2019

[Boar Fighter]

Density yields higher capillary action.

Duke 3 (left) vs Chubby 2.

And it's a tight configuration knot. Doesn't bloom much like the Polo 8. Still wet at the base 18h after shaving, drying on the windowsill.

It seems like a bush. Good luck with drying!

 

[naughtilus]

It seems like a bush. Good luck with drying!

Thankfully, I have backup brushes.

 

[Boar Fighter]

Thankfully, I have backup brushes.

The Ivory Wall! It's happening! They 're multiplying!

 

[naughtilus]

The Ivory Wall! It's happening! They 're multiplying!

A thing of beauty. How many ivory colored handles in your collection including backups? I'm at modest 5.35.

 

[gwsmallwood]

Used my very first custom for my birthday shave today. I'm pretty sure I commissioned it with birthday money just a couple of years ago.

 

[naughtilus]

Used my very first custom for my birthday shave today. I'm pretty sure I commissioned it with birthday money just a couple of years ago.

Great GIT setup. Happy birthday! Enjoy many smooth and close shaves in the year to come.

 

[Sotiris_A]

Used my very first custom for my birthday shave today. I'm pretty sure I commissioned it with birthday money just a couple of years ago.

Happy birthday @gwsmallwood ! What a beautiful brush!

 

[gwsmallwood]

Happy birthday @gwsmallwood ! What a beautiful brush!

One of my favorites, and one of the first handful that Derek over at WildWestBrushWorks ever made.

 

[Boar Fighter]

A thing of beauty. How many ivory colored handles in your collection including backups? I'm at modest 5.35.

I think they are 8. 2 Omegas, 3 Vulfix Grosvenor, 1 Simpson X2 Commodore, 1 Simpson Eagle 2, 1 EJ best.

Too many already... And i have 0 blue ones. I have an Omega model, but it's so dark blue, that it's not really blue.

I need more blue! (Yaqi silvertip, i am looking at you!)

 

[Sotiris_A]

I think they are 8. 2 Omegas, 3 Vulfix Grosvenor, 1 Simpson X2 Commodore, 1 Simpson Eagle 2, 1 EJ best.

Too many already... And i have 0 blue ones. I have an Omega model, but it's so dark blue, that it's not really blue.

I need more blue! (Yaqi silvertip, i am looking at you!)

I think the Yaqi can wait for the next 3 months...

 

[Boar Fighter]

I think the Yaqi can wait for the next 3 months...

It will! It will! Don't worry. I am just making long term plans. Especially, if the horse in this month's rotation tangles again, i will kick out of rotation my 2 horses, so i will have free slots.

 

[naughtilus]

I think they are 8. 2 Omegas, 3 Vulfix Grosvenor, 1 Simpson X2 Commodore, 1 Simpson Eagle 2, 1 EJ best.

Too many already... And i have 0 blue ones. I have an Omega model, but it's so dark blue, that it's not really blue.

I need more blue! (Yaqi silvertip, i am looking at you!)

You have Muhle in blue.

 

[naughtilus]

I'm holding off for the Jade Omega till SBS ends. No point in doing a sabbatical if you don't have a brush tempting you.

 

[Boar Fighter]

You have Muhle in blue.

Oh, right! I forgot about that! But it's very washed out blue. Muhle calls is "fjord blue". Yes, i like that, because i like blue in general, but it's not really real blue either.

 

[naughtilus]

Oh, right! I forgot about that! But it's very washed out blue. Muhle calls is "fjord blue". Yes, i like that, because i like blue in general, but it's not really real blue either.

Fjord blue??? pfffffffffffffffff

That's the most Italian blue there ever was. Royal House of Savoy - see the ribbon and mantle with Bleu celeste tincture.

 

[Sotiris_A]

I'm holding off for the Jade Omega till SBS ends. No point in doing a sabbatical if you don't have a brush tempting you.

It doesn't work particularly well for bowl lathering IME. Too short. YMMV

No temptations here at the moment. I have too much stuff. I would actually like to decrease the brushes (and other shaving items) in rotation.

 

[naughtilus]

It doesn't work particularly well for bowl lathering IME. Too short. YMMV

Neither do Duke 3 and Chubby 2. I occasionally face lather to keep my technique in check.

 

[Boar Fighter]

Fjord blue??? pfffffffffffffffff

That's the most Italian blue there ever was. Royal House of Savoy - see the ribbon and mantle with Bleu celeste tincture.

Yes, too bad we had a referendum that abolished the monarchy, so that tiny ribbon doesn't mean anything anymore.

 

[naughtilus]

Yes, too bad we had a referendum that abolished the monarchy, so that tiny ribbon doesn't mean anything anymore.

It still means something to those that don't have a broken spirit. Referendums are meaningless falsification of popular will. If you're familiar with Alta Vendita, Piccolo Tigre, Carbonari etc. you know how things change. Far from anything organic or 'progressive'.

 

[naughtilus]

Today's brush is my easiest one to live with - fast to lather, most versatile handle, best flow through, excellent painter, quick to rinse and dry.

Vulfix 404b