Warning: Old man's, first world problems, rant following.
After receiving (and using) my Wee Scot, I discovered I am a believer for small brushes.
Well this is not small but falls to tiny, though I am astonished by how well and easy it loads and lathers, especially for face.
Also bowl lathering was very nice but took a little more time than I care to. Either way I am not a huge fan of bowl, even if I can get the water ratio with more precision.
It fascinates me that it is a high precision tool, loads even triple milled soaps without much effort, minimal lather waste for 2 passes and does not make a mess all over my face with soap getting on my ears or inside my nose.
Ideally I would like to have more backbone but given the 13/39 loft I can see this is not possible. Honestly, I am on the verge of contacting Simpsons and ask for a one set at 28mm height (maybe will do when all this virus situation resumes back to, as much possible, normal. There is no point now in disturbing them with an old man’s odd request)
Given the above I am looking the last few days for short lofted small brushes. And by small I mean something in the 20mm area with around a 2-2.2 loft ratio and on a kind of affordable side, iderally at 50-70€ pricerange. This still does not count exactly as affordable, given the prices I see nowadays but still not extremely priced.
After looking, and with the exception of some pure badgers (which generally don’t get much praise) I have found that in EU accessible, only Simpsons and Shavemac offer something close to what I am looking for and in general care to match loft height to width variation
Namely:
DUKE 1 in best (inside target price)
Shavemac in 21/48 (still a little off than the ideal and over target price).
Yes you got is correct, all these were a prologue to a buying advise.
So why did you not ask straightforward, one might say?
Simply, too much spare time..
Am I missing something here?
See, Jim? At least you put brushes in your cart.
Me? I cannot even do that anymore.
After receiving (and using) my Wee Scot, I discovered I am a believer for small brushes.
Well this is not small but falls to tiny, though I am astonished by how well and easy it loads and lathers, especially for face.
Also bowl lathering was very nice but took a little more time than I care to. Either way I am not a huge fan of bowl, even if I can get the water ratio with more precision.
It fascinates me that it is a high precision tool, loads even triple milled soaps without much effort, minimal lather waste for 2 passes and does not make a mess all over my face with soap getting on my ears or inside my nose.
Ideally I would like to have more backbone but given the 13/39 loft I can see this is not possible. Honestly, I am on the verge of contacting Simpsons and ask for a one set at 28mm height (maybe will do when all this virus situation resumes back to, as much possible, normal. There is no point now in disturbing them with an old man’s odd request)
Given the above I am looking the last few days for short lofted small brushes. And by small I mean something in the 20mm area with around a 2-2.2 loft ratio and on a kind of affordable side, iderally at 50-70€ pricerange. This still does not count exactly as affordable, given the prices I see nowadays but still not extremely priced.
After looking, and with the exception of some pure badgers (which generally don’t get much praise) I have found that in EU accessible, only Simpsons and Shavemac offer something close to what I am looking for and in general care to match loft height to width variation
Namely:
DUKE 1 in best (inside target price)
Shavemac in 21/48 (still a little off than the ideal and over target price).
Yes you got is correct, all these were a prologue to a buying advise.
So why did you not ask straightforward, one might say?
Simply, too much spare time..
Am I missing something here?
I have very sad news to report: I've put some brushes in the cart in recent days (not just Zeniths), but removed them without pulling the trigger. It's hard to convince myself to buy more brushes when I have brushes I like perfectly well but haven't used in like forever. It's gotta be a sign of something bad wrong with me, right?
Happy shaves,
Jim
See, Jim? At least you put brushes in your cart.
Me? I cannot even do that anymore.