Your top 5 favourite brushes?

[pugh-the-special-one]

Lets see your top five lineup, now I like hard soaps and face lathering, so my top five are all perfectly suited for doing this job.

1 Semogue OC special edition 2012 boar & Badger mix
2 Bill Jack Le Tuft 59 super badger in buckeyed burl
3 Morris & Forndran L7 super badger in faux tortoiseshell
4 Rooney Hertitage Stubby super badger 2 in super
5 Bill Jack Le Tuft Chubby 1.5 two band badger in lignum vitae

 

[davidb]

Nothing so exotic for me:

1 Simpson Chubby 1 Super
2 New Forest 2204
3 New Forest Tubby 2
4 Simpson Wee Scot
5 Vulfix 18 Pure Bristle

David

 

[Jabberwock]

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1) Vie Long Pro Horsehair with custom handle


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2) Vulfix 376S Super Badger


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3) The Art of Shaving Ebony Fine Badger


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4) Edwin Jagger nickel plated/ebony Pure Badger


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5) Omega 11137 Boar

 

[dmpl]

Here are my top 5:

From left to right
NF Tubby 1 super badger
NF 2201
Muhle Sophist limited edition
Kent BK12
Custom silvertip

 

[NNathwani]

At the moment:

1. Simpsons Duke 3 in Best
2. NF Tubby 2
3. NF 1901
4. NF Tubby 1 Tigris Perla
5. Semogue 620

This may change as I have a Frank Shaving Pur-Tech synthetic and a Whipped Dog 30mm Silvertip on the way. Could quite easily use the Duke 3 all the time, as it is magnificent, but I like variety.

 

[UKRob]

I'm with Jamie - the only problem is that I haven't tried them all yet.

 

[Tall_Paul]

I've narrowed my brushes down to a favourite 20!! Be difficult to pick a top 5 but I'll have a think.

 

[Dr Rick]

I don't have a brush made by any of the makers in Jamie's top five, funnily enough. My top five are probably all biggish Rod Neep productions, much as I like my Simpsons and New Forests.

 

[Denzle]

Even though I posess a couple of dozen de razors I've never felt the urge to own more than two high class brushes. My fave brush is my NF Stubby closely followed by my FS 28mm silvertip. Both exceptional brushes.

 

[Gravy]

I only have 3 brushes that i use

1) Neep Stone 26mm (x48mm) Extra Silver Tip
2) Simpson Duke 2 Best
3) Semogue Owners Club Boar (currently breaking in)

All 3 are great for face lathering. I'll probably by a 2-band SOC or M&F at some point this year.

I also have one of those NOS Fred Dickinson & Gilroys Boar brushes and a useless Edwin Jagger black badger.

 

[Burgundy]

It's time for an update. In no real order:

Thäter 49125/1 3-band
Morris & Forndran 2XL
Shavemac Silvertip
Whipped Dog silvertip
Semogue BC Mistura

Apologies for the shocking picture. My phone camera doesn't really do these justice!

 

[cheesepiece]

Top 3​

1) The Shave Nook Limited Edition Caravella-type mixed hair.

2) Molton Brown Sivertip.
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*Please excuse my tatty fatty.

3) Pro-phy-lac-tic Custom TGN finest 22m.

 

[Prius111]

Plisson HMW size 20 in Horn

Rooney "Victorian" Finest

Rooney "Emillion" Finest

Rooney "3/2" Finest

Rooney "3/2" Finest faux horn


Charles U.K

 

[FrankieG]

Only having 4 brushes in my rotation, here are my top 3:

- Morris & Forndran Blonde Badger
- TGN 2-band badger in a Vulfix Grosvenor handle
- Shavemac 177 Silvertip

I'm so impressed with the M&F I'm thinking of ordering an L7 from him.

 

[Gairdner]

That Rooney Victorian handle is one of the bonniest I've ever seen! More pictures to satisfy the inner beast, please.

 

[pugh-the-special-one]

I've sold quite a few of my brushes and I only have 4 in my rotation at this moment in time and I'm pretty much happy with this number and more important how they perform, I'll put them in order of preference but a special mention must go to the Simpsons P8 I find this one my very all time favourite brushes pretty outstanding all round performer and for a brush that cost around £60 quite incredible and I would choose it over my Rooney Heritage of my Morris & Forndran L7.

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