YaQi 24mm 'Tuxedo' Synthetic

Ok i've got 2 Yaqi brushes the one below which is a 30mm black fiber and a 30mm tuxedo. And I have to say the Yaqi black fiber is miles softer than their tuxedo. Wow the brush as beautiful. Its a sweet spot between an APshave's tuxedo and cashmere. Its not like the boss knot which I thought it would feel like due to the looks.
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The black fibre is my favourite knot/brush, mine is the 26mm red handle (not the balluster, the other one).

My impression was that the fibres were the same as the Tuxedo, but the glue bump was lower, hence less backbone (more to my taste). As a consequence I sold all my Tuxedo brushes.
 
Soft as in no backbone?
I have 6 synthetic brushes and two of them are Yaqi tuxedos a 24 and a 30mm and I can confirm the fibers are defo different on the black. The softness overall is a combo of softer tips and softer fibers in their full length. It has backbone but not as much as the Yaqi tuxedo. More than a APshave cashmere and near identical to an APShave tux. The caveat that as reported the Yaqi tux's backbone is not from the amount of the fibers, the thickness of fibers or the tensile strength of the fibers, IMO its drawn from its clue bump.
 
As has been already said here, the lofts might be a little shorter than stated in the product description.

To all of you who possess Yaqi brushes, how short can this be?
I'm just asking because I received yesterday my Yaqi Sagrada Familia, and it's surprisingly short, too short for me actually, 49mm at most, and that's the measure at the very tip of the longest single fiber.
 
To all of you who possess Yaqi brushes, how short can this be?
I'm just asking because I received yesterday my Yaqi Sagrada Familia, and it's surprisingly short, too short for me actually, 49mm at most, and that's the measure at the very tip of the longest single fiber.

What is the glue bump like?
 
What is the glue bump like?

First thing I checked as well, seems to me it's 'regular', as in not different from other brushes, you can feel it, but it's not too big nor too small, leading me to think that the knot would be in the perfect height (handle<->knot wise).

I sent a message to Yaqi, they replied saying they started to make shorter lofts because it was requested by users, and he sent me a picture with their measurement, showing 55mm. I would say 55mm to 49mm goes a big difference, and although the fibers are very very soft, the knot won't splay the enough to get lather for the complete shave.

Yesterday I tested it and struggled with getting enough lather for 3 passes plus touchups. Furthermore, it's so short that I ended up having almost as much lather in my hands as in the brush.

I will take a picture with the measurement later on and post it.
 
Here it is, 49mm. The description stated 53 +- 1mm.
If this was a boar, wouldn't be such a problem, as I like my Semogue 620, with a 50mm loft. But the boar splays a lot, unlike this one. So although the fibers fell great, it's just too small, I'll probably end up trying to unglue it and set it a little higher.
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