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Pleased you enjoyed your first badger shave, do you think you will be wanting to try a Silvertip badger brush to get a feeling for super soft tips against your skin?I started with boars, tried synthetics and never looked back. Just thought I should try a badger for you know science like, so got meself a Berkeley 46 in Best.
Not too big and not too expensive, after all it might be rubbish right?
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After a few hand lathers to clean it I had my first shave with it using a Edwin Jagger 3ONE6 and Polsilver SI.
Great shave. I like it. Obviously it is somewhat small. It has great density but splays nicely with a wee bit of pressure, and swoops round the face beautifully. Very nice backbone, noticeable and enjoyable throughout when loading and face lathering. I like to put a fully saturated brush direct to the Tabac puck and give it the beans. This brush holds water just fine. The tips I find hard to describe, probably because I've not used a badger before, so my terminology may be off but here's my impression.
A bit pokey and stiff, not uncomfortable but very present. Combined with the backbone, they allow a very nice scrubby and, I think scritchy is the word you guys use, experience. Not scratchy, maybe scratchy, but that would mean uncomfortable I assume. So scritchy then as I found the experience enjoyable and not painful or unpleasant. I like it and can see why some folks don't and would want softer tips. Maybe the tips will change with use but I sincerely hope that scritchy feel remains present, as to me that gives this brush it's character and makes it different to my other brushes.
The brush cost me around £42 delivered, direct from Simpson. I'm very happy with the purchase and have nowt bad to say about the brush, and will happily use it alongside my synthetics. I have deliberately avoided trying to compare it with a synthetic, as I just wanted to focus on my impression of it as my first badger brush shave. I won't be jumping down that particular rabbit hole, or badger hole, but it's great scrubby wee brush and I'm glad I have it.
I recently tried my first synthetic, complete opposite to you. While synthetics lather better, the experience using the badger (mostly soft silver tips for me) far exceeds the synthetic brush. It's the experience that changes shaving from a chore to something enjoyable.
I recently purchased another badger (30mm knot) which is best badger, it starts scritchy, but does get better. On a large knot, it's not great to have too much scritch (IMO). Although the synth is soft to the touch, in use a silver tip seems softer. Not great for loading soaps, unless you rub the soap on your face first.
We need plastics. What else are we going to do with all that crude oil? It won't go away because of electric cars.
Too much plastic already on this planet...burn the synthetics...err...but don't breathe the fumesstill prefer badger by a long way.
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