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Vie-Long from 16.00...
I have the cheap 13.00 one that is out of stock.
I have never used it.
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Vie-Long from 16.00...
Sorry, I didn't notice that. Only the one I clicked on, which was the one that I bought. I believe Vie-Long is the only horse hair brush maker unless Semogue does one.
They do. The Semogue Pharos-C3-Y looks interesting.
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Horse is moppy and gets worse with use. Boar is the way to go. I still have a nice badger that I rarely use and a nice vintage horse that is better than any horse you can get today. And yes I have very nice synthetics which are collecting dust.
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I actually like the somewhat moppy character of horse hair brushes, but that might be because I usually bowl lather and only touch-up lather on my face if it feels a touch dry after having applied it.
I like the ZENITH Horse hair extra soft 506U XS (olive handle), although that one's almost too moppy.
I might grab the 50/50 one at some point.
If you don't mind purchasing from AliExpress, I also liked the 30mm Boti Brush's white horse hair knot in bulb shape. It's soft, but the density and knot size gives it a bit more backbone and the tips are fairly soft.
I used to have a Vie-Long horse hair shaving brush, one of the cheapest ones and it was scrubby with somewhat prickly tips even when pre-soaked, and kept shedding.
Perhaps their higher tiers are better, as one would hope so, but the Boti and the Zenith scratched that itch pretty well for me.
I like the ZENITH Horse hair extra soft 506U XS (olive handle), although that one's almost too moppy.
I might grab the 50/50 one at some point.
If you don't mind purchasing from AliExpress, I also liked the 30mm Boti Brush's white horse hair knot in bulb shape. It's soft, but the density and knot size gives it a bit more backbone and the tips are fairly soft.
I used to have a Vie-Long horse hair shaving brush, one of the cheapest ones and it was scrubby with somewhat prickly tips even when pre-soaked, and kept shedding.
Perhaps their higher tiers are better, as one would hope so, but the Boti and the Zenith scratched that itch pretty well for me.
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The Boti option is what I'm most drawn to. I was wondering if I were to purchase the handle and knot will they assemble them.
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Most of these shops do if you add a note when ordering asking them to do so.
You can always ask them whether they'd do it for you should you leave a note with the order before actually ordering.
You might want to do it yourself, though, as if you haven't used one before, your preference for setting the knot might be different than with other brush types.
Oh, and I also have a 30mm Oumo white horse hair brush in fan shape, and that's one I would probably set deeper than, say, the Boti bulb, because it really, really soft.
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Well, if it get's too moppy it's a great handle to put a nice boar into!
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I have both the Zenith 50:50 and the Extra Soft. They are superb knots that fly under the radar. The 50:50 has a scrubby face feel, more so than most boar knots, it also has a ton of backbone and a lot of presence at the tips. The Extra Soft outperforms any of my synthetic brushes in terms of the progressiveness of the splay and face feel. Neither of my knots have tangled or have become floppy and have required no more maintenance than any of my other natural hair brushes.
