Simpsons...meh!

Redbeard said:
I have never liked dead animals on my face so there.
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Do you like woollen socks or woollen items in general, badger hair is not a dead animal, it is only the hair, millions of chickens are bred in terrible conditions and slaughtered every year for food, the feathers get used too but no one complains about that....well a few do I suppose, but it won't stop.
 
You could always sell the handle to someone here as a little re knot project
 
fly3k said:
You could always sell the handle to someone here as a little re knot project
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You know what?..I dumped it in anger a while before coming back to the forum. If I still had it, I wouldn't sell it, but I would PIF it. I feel guilty about that now...I just get too darned emotional when it comes to the things I loved once, so, so very much.
 
So many BST listings for Simpson brushes on this and other shaving forums have to have the obligatory statement "not a shedder" you do not see this statement applied as often for other brush brands listed on BST. I think that is telling. It also makes it risky when buying a used Simpson brush.
 
3 years ago I bought a Simpsons Chubby 2 Synthetic & it was superb until one day, after only a month, the knot flew out of the handle in bits when I was shaking it over the sink. I returned it and the replacement has been faultless. Every manufacture has the odd lemon and the important thing is how they respond when you encounter a problem. Simpson certainly stand by their brushes.
 
Just popped in for old times sake and noticed this thread. Fact is, occasionally just about every brand of badger brush will produce a shedder - Simpsons included. In the years I produced my New Forest brushes the email I most dreaded was from a buyer who experienced shedding. Fortunately it rarely came. I always sent a replacement brush. I'm still using several of my brushes. The only outsider is a Trumpers brush I bought on what was probably the only TRS meet in London several years ago when we did a tour of the major West End barbers. That hasn't shed a hair I've noticed.
 
I have to say I'm not a fan of moaning without giving somebody the chance to put it right if you don't chose to return it and give them the opportunity to put it right then don't moan

having said that I do agree my dad bought the duke with shedding issues but it was replaced with no issue and has had no issue since

my only brush is the chubby 2 manchurian and I've only ever noticed losing 1 hair from new
its not good hearing of issues but anything can have a fault no matter how superior you might believe something is. It's how it's put right that matters
 
What was the line from that song? Oh, yes..."It's my post and I can moan if I want to"...or something along those lines.

However, just a point of clarification, I wasn't 'moaning' about the brush so much as making a point about the perceived drop in quality as quantities increase, even though the prices go up.
 
I read an interview a few years back where Simpsons claimed to be selling over 20 000 brushes a year. And that was before their synthetic line was fully established. That's a lot of brushes.
 
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