Sunday 15th December
Hot shower
Hot flannel
Tabac stick grated scuttle lathered
Simpson Hive Manchurian badger brush
Gillette NEW deluxe chrome
Gillette 7 o'clock super stainless (2)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lavender witch hazel
Old Spice Sensitive aftershave
Decent shave no big drama just one small weeper at the bottom of my neck stopped with the cold rinse.
Greetings Brian
Frankly I don't like it that much. Most of the hairs are as soft as silk but in the middle of the knot are lots of stiff hairs that have tips like tiny needles, this gives the knot a real prickly feel to it. Also the knot is quite intolerant of 'mashing' I mean pushing firmly against the face to splay the bristles, after about nine months or so of use I had to take a bodkin and tease out a mass of tangled hairs in the centre of the knot it appeared the knot was developing a doughnut but this was not the case just a mass of tangled bent bristles.
All in all I am quite disappointed with it, this model is the Vie-Long 13061M which is the unbleached version with 35% mane and 65% tail hair, where the prickly bits come from I don't know. I don't know if other models have this prickliness to them or not.
As a very minor consolation the handle is a very nice shape to hold I have been seriously thinking about steaming out the knot and replacing it with something different. The real shame about this sorry tale is that it knocks up lather as good as, or better than just about any other brush I have but with it's dire face feel that seems of little significance!
It would be nice to hear about other peoples experiences with Vie Long horse brushes perhaps some of the models are fine.
Regards
Dick.
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Thankyou for your thoughts and experiences with the brush Dick. We'll see if anyone else has a comment to make....
