Hi guys.
I've been a member on here for a few weeks now and have gotten some fantastic help and advice, and I am extremely grateful for it all.
I've owned this brush (and a few other items for a few weeks) and I thought I would write my first review. I've provided some photos showing the brush lathered up. So here goes..........
I got this brush a couple of weeks ago along with another brush and I find it is absolutely superb. Really enjoyed using them both.
Unbelievably soft Plissoft fibres/bristles, very large knot, and has the perfect amount of backbone for lathering soaps and also enough flop in the tips to cover a vast amount of your face in one stroke. I cannot believe just how soft the tips of this brush are.
Admittedly not has tightly packed knot as the Simpson Chubby 2 synthetic (which is the other brush I got and that has an insane amount of fibres in the knot). I have been using BB for bowl lathering and it does a outstanding job.
I have used this brush with Proraso soaps and also Taylors Of Old Bond Street tub cream and it is outstanding with them both, especially with the Taylors Of Old Bond Street which lathers up amazingly quickly and lots of it.
The brush splays relatively easy, despite it having a perfect amount of backbone, but personally I don't see the need to do it with any shaving brush, and instead I use a back and forth “paint brushing†motion.
It holds tons of lather and still has a heap left in it after three passes, so what I usually do with the remainder of the soap is, I squeeze it out of the brush and rub it around my face, and leave it on, until I have washed out the lathering bowl and my brush.
The brush is really comfortable in the hand, and has a perfect and comfortable to grip handle, even when wet etc. I'm so pleased I went with a synthetic brush as I can wet the brush and its ready to go (no soaking required I find) and it dries quickly and is usually dry later on in the evening when I come back home. I cannot see my Semogue 1438 Boar Hair brush getting any use now, and would probably sell this at some point, now that I have this fantastic brush and also the equally fantastic Simpson Chubby 2 synthetic.
With all of the good I have wrote above about the Big Bruce, the asking price is an absolute steal, at under £20, it should be in everyone's shaving kit.
Hope this review is helpful to potential purchasers and if anyone has any questions, then please feel free to ask