YaQi 24mm 'Tuxedo' Synthetic
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I love the noir look on my Razorock 400
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Ah, different strokes for different folks. I dislike black synthetic knots & black badger even more. Thank goodness for choice
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Received one of these yesterday...
I dont really like gaudy shaving brush handles and this definitely counts as such! I only went for it as they seem to be the most popular so I figured it would be relatively painless to move on compared to a vanilla ivory one.
Aesthetics aside, the handle is well made with a good heft... There are no machining marks or imperfections unlike every Maseto I've had! The knot has a small glue bump, is dense for a synthetic (coming from Muhle & Plisson) with medium backbone and good water retention, possibly the first synthetic I've used that doesnt dribble. There were 9 fibres upside down in the knot which I had to pluck out, more than I'd like to see ideally.
After two uses I think its safe to say they are a bit of a bargain.
Edited as I was talking bollox.
I dont really like gaudy shaving brush handles and this definitely counts as such! I only went for it as they seem to be the most popular so I figured it would be relatively painless to move on compared to a vanilla ivory one.
Aesthetics aside, the handle is well made with a good heft... There are no machining marks or imperfections unlike every Maseto I've had! The knot has a small glue bump, is dense for a synthetic (coming from Muhle & Plisson) with medium backbone and good water retention, possibly the first synthetic I've used that doesnt dribble. There were 9 fibres upside down in the knot which I had to pluck out, more than I'd like to see ideally.
After two uses I think its safe to say they are a bit of a bargain.
Edited as I was talking bollox.
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Received one of these yesterday...
I dont really like gaudy shaving brush handles and this definitely counts as such! I only went for it as they seem to be the most popular so I figured it would be relatively painless to move on compared to a vanilla ivory one.
Aesthetics aside, the handle is well made with a good heft... There are no machining marks or imperfections unlike every Maseto I've had! The knot has a small glue bump, is dense for a synthetic (coming from Muhle & Plisson) with medium backbone and good water retention, possibly the first synthetic I've used that doesnt dribble. There were 9 fibres upside down in the knot which I had to pluck out, nothing compared to RazoRock synthetics but still more than I'd like to see ideally.
After two uses I think its safe to say they are a bit of a bargain... They blow RR brushes out of the water, still not quite up to Muhle & Plisson handle quality wise but the Yaqi knots are in another league, the old European companies really need to catch up as they're still advertising 4 year old fibres as some kind of breakthrough... In reality they're barely fit for purpose compared to the latest generation.
...definitely a case of YMMV; I find the old style RR synthetics have a better face feel for me than Yaqi's offerings, which feel like a sponge; backbone with many synthetics though varies even with the same models and seems to depend entirely on the height of the glue bump...
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Having exactly the same discussion on "the other forum".
Its subjective, as is everything in this game... I suppose I shouldn't say its superior to all the other synthetics, only that it comes much closer to what I look for in a perfect brush.
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I don't see it so much gaudy as I do retro "moddish" appearing. I kinda like it.
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That's fair enough. For context my definition of gaudy is anything other than faux Ebony/faux Ivory/WoodI don't see it so much gaudy as I do retro "moddish" appearing. I kinda like it.
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