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The best way to fix a synthetic is to replace it with boar. Boar brushes will never turn into bad or broken synthetics no matter what you do to them.
I'm baffled that you can't 'git along' with a horsie - although my shaving slowed somewhat with the pandemic, I used a Vie Long white horse hair brush for a full year from early January 2020 exclusively i.e. without interruption - no knots, no tangles. It'll be trotted out soon - one of my absolute favourites.You do right ...
Nice idea, terrible in practice. It is literally impossible not to end up with a tangled knot when lathering. I really, really wanted the idea of horse to work out for me but I just could not get past having to groom it after every use. It was a stress ... and shaving should not be that.
Yep, that's the horsie on the left in my picture previously.I'm baffled that you can't 'git along' with a horsie - although my shaving slowed somewhat with the pandemic, I used a Vie Long white horse hair brush for a full year from early January 2020 exclusively i.e. without interruption - no knots, no tangles. It'll be trotted out soon - one of my absolute favourites.
Mine is buried somewhere here, although the link might get scrubbed:Yep, that's the horsie on the left in my picture previously.
Climb back in the saddle, take the reins, stick your nuzzle in the nose bag and have a look at this:... mine got a plastic wig!
He's a rhinestone cowboy, can't handle a real horses.Climb back in the saddle, take the reins, stick your nuzzle in the nose bag and have a look at this:
I'm mostly a face latherer, Paul - I like a nice warm (ok hot) brush on my fizzog. Revisiting the vendor websites I've been shocked at some of the prices. I reckon white horse hair is the way to go and the one I showed you is cheap as chips - maybe a UK vendor has it, since Brexit seems to have derailed some delivered prices from the EU.I also had two Amphora handles from Vie-Long, the first (a white horse) also tangled up like crazy. The second was a brown horse and it was of such poor quality control, the knot had to be pulled - it had a dink in the metal ring and a corresponding "chip" in the handle edge:
... that knot was steamed and pulled. What a terrible rim!
That one got a badger as a commission:
... the other another plastic wig.
You fellows have encouraged me to at least give it another try. As I said, I really wanted horse to work for me, but I just could not get along with the format. Quick sanity check: I'm a face latherer. You guys, too?
I guess I'm a bowl latherer.Quick sanity check: I'm a face latherer. You guys, too?
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