I just received the email with this announcement. Very cool looking and Tatara partnered with Semogue for the badger and boar knots (not sure about the synthetic).
Tatara Muramasa Adjustable brush now available
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Yes, I too got that e-mail.
Image courtesy Tatara Razors
Interesting concept; I remember a different shaving forum doing a few years back a limited run of adjustable loft brushes in collaboration with Shavemac.
These are the specifications according to the Tatara website:
Loft: [48 – 58] mm
Knot diameter: 24 mm
Handle height: 51 mm
Weight: 114 grams
Using a dial located on the bottom of the brush, and featuring a one-piece design, simply rotate the dial to switch between settings 1-3, which are:
Setting 1 - Hair length 48 mm*
Setting 2 - Hair length 53 mm
Setting 3 - Hair length 48 mm*
To remove the knot, rotate clockwise beyond setting 3.
* Note that Setting 1 and 3 specify the same hair length, which I suspect to be in error and one of these settings should actually read 58 mm.
But at a price range from $275 (finest badger) to $201 (synthetic) and $197 (boar), I am not convinced that the benefit is worth the extra cost, even though Tatara does offer replacement knots separately so that one handle could be matched with three different knots.
I really like the brand and the ingenuity, attention to detail, and quality behind the brand, but I probably will sit this one out.
B.
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I can sort of understand why someone would want an adjustable razor; either to switch settings between the first and second pass or to be able to buy one razor to determine how much aggression you like instead of 3 or 4 non-adjustables with varying aggression.
But I have trouble understanding how an adjustable brush would be beneficial. Particularly at these prices. You could get a very good badger brush, excellent synthetic, and excellent boar all for the cost of the adjustable badger and have pretty much every scenario covered. Or get a couple badgers made with different lofts.
But I have trouble understanding how an adjustable brush would be beneficial. Particularly at these prices. You could get a very good badger brush, excellent synthetic, and excellent boar all for the cost of the adjustable badger and have pretty much every scenario covered. Or get a couple badgers made with different lofts.
Jay21
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I agree. It seems an adjustable brush is a solution in search of a problem.
You mean like in “a solution in search of a problem”?
Still, kind of clever to come up with something like this…
B.
24/58 seems a high loft
24/50 was perfectly fine on their original brush
I'd rather they made the handle lighter or focused on the single edge, which has now been pushed to the end of the year.
24/50 was perfectly fine on their original brush
I'd rather they made the handle lighter or focused on the single edge, which has now been pushed to the end of the year.
