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I'd rather skin a Chinese alive than a badger any day.
All my brushes are synthetic: Plisson, Maggard, Kent and Chinese 2nd or 3rd generation.
What are the Chinese ones?
Try speaking nicely to them.One thing my synthetic brushes lack is personality.
FYI @Ferrum , Edwin Jagger synthetics use the same Muhle V2 knots and they have a few different handle choices, including 'tall' handles available only from Connaught (no affiliation).My long-handled Zenith 27mm 507RCTS brush arrived from Spain today. As usual, it lathers like billy-oh and handles nicely.
Musing on this topic, I considered how much I've gone over to synths. I always bowl-lather, and mashing an expensive badger into bowls, of which my newer ones have very prominent lather rings/grooves, now seems even less of a good idea. The synths take this stick without, as they say, turning a hair.
Perversely, I like a bit of badger-scritch in a brush, and that's not a possibility with Plissons. The Muhle V2 (?) that I have, does provide it. I'm not sure if their Silvertip Fibre does too, but I guess these knots are exclusive to Muhle, which rules out all the fun variations of handles and so forth, which come from a knot type used in common by many makers.
Is that a Zenith with badger look-a-like fibres or blackish fibres?
FYI @Ferrum , Edwin Jagger synthetics use the same Muhle V2 knots and they have a few different handle choices, including 'tall' handles available only from Connaught (no affiliation).