What's with B&B's Butterscotch obsession?
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:shock: :lol:antdad said:
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I remember seeing an old dear on the Antiques Roadshow a few years back, who brought in her Furry Muff to show to the expert, who informed her it was perfect for putting both hands inside to keep them warm! :shock:
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I thought they were bought that way till I read about them but that was a while ago. (I know some of them were sold as butterscotch but the rest of them turned this way over time. The only question I did not answer at the time was will all ivory coloured brushes go this way over time? or is this just with older materials that are no longer used that turn this shade?
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I asked Brett from Simpson about reissuing a brush in butterscotch (thinking they were once made and sold like that). He said Simpson never made them that colour and that the yellowing/oxidation of the plastic was a perculiarity of using Catalin which is a type of Bakelite. I don't know about other brush makers though.
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jhclare said:
They're a bunch of bandwagon jumping sheep-minded twatwaffles. First time I've seen this "butterscotch" was at Tony's Penworks site. It's nice looking but it didn't compel me to get it. But of course to them it's not the "real" deal. All that matters to me is if the brush performs. Black, white, purple, neon color handles don't mean diddly much less butterscotch. There are people who ascribe to the adage "All Show and no Go." Those cumdumpsters remind me of the guys into the import cars those with neons and horrendous underglow kits and gaytezza ( Altezza ) tail lamps and viking battle horn exhaust. Compared to a real sports car these are torqueless wonders known as your grocery getter-Honda. Yes I currenly have a Honda but I don't bastardize it by putting ridiculous gull wing.
But I digress, regarding the butterscotch brush I like Ian's ( Fozz ) it had hint of white stripes. Rudy does turn some nice butterscotches. But there's no way in hell I'll jump on the bandwagon and head up toward egay and look for vintage butterscotch. Although now you got me thinking, I reckon I might do so only to turn around and rape the poor saps charging XXX amount because they have such hard-on for it. To each his own I guess.
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SiR-ed8 said:
Twatwaffles - priceless!! Someones going to be at the wrong end of that one today :lol: :lol:
Hey Ivan, bet that ain't de-caff
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antdad said:SiR-ed8 said:
...so this Holy Land Olive Wood Rook w/ Bocote inlay handle was made for performance and practical reasons only? Of course it wasn't.
SiR-ed8 said:
That's so sweet...I'm sure you'll get plenty of takers.
antdad,
I applaud you in your efforts to disgrace me but you fail miserably. If you've seen my past postings perhaps it was even you who pointed out my "anti-badger" remarks. Make no mistake I don't hate badger I simply have preference to boar. That 26 mm Holy land Olive wood with bocote inlay design had nothing to do with me I simply liked Rooks. I don't even know a thing about exotic woods. It was talented friend of mine and at the time I didn't really know a thing about brushes. Again I started out with Simpsons B4 Pure and ventured on to custom badgers followed by boar. Hindsight's 20/20 I should've tried boars instead of resorting to custom badgers. But you live and learn.
Due to fact I found black & white ebony 22 mm silvertip to be flaccid and consume a lot of soap, it wasn't fitting for me to even try other 2 customs in 24 and 26 mm. It behooved me to try boar. It's in that very review of Peter's brush you conveniently left out.
Furthermore, after my experience with Omega I resorted to custom handled boars and these are obviously put to use compared to the Silvertip counterparts.
If you're going to tear me apart my friend please have the facts. You simply took out sections to make it appear I'm an assclown contradicting myself. Are you somehow implying I'm a pretentious schmuck whoring out my $10-$20 boar brushes?
If you for instance added all the Omega boars, few badgers and others in my collection it certainly does not amount to a $300-500 Plisson, an exceptional brush I know nothing about nor do I care to spend to find out.
With regards to the butterscotch, that last remark was sarcasm no one in hell's going to pay XXX amount. In the end those brushes end up at high price but start of bidding is obviously low. I was merely pointing out the mindless followers hard-on for such a brush's aesthetic qualities but as I said "to each his own" they are certainly entitled to their opinion as the old saying goes "Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got them" and I add some stink more than others. "Nevermind that I'm a badger/boar guy I'm going to get this butterscotch because so and so said it's cool *drools*" Entirely different from one member recommending say Semogue 1305 because it's such a great performer. Nothing to do with its aesthetic values but mainly it's performance. If you're going to get a brush based on performance and not its dual colored green/white handle then by all means. Make sense mate?
BTW if you look very carefully mate, you'll see that there's a string with a leather tied around the neck of custom badgers not to mention the Omega 615 with its necklace. The latter is 1 mm longer in loft by comparison to the 599 which I'm currently using. I see no point in using the 615 because I have many others I'd rather break-in. Bottom line, the badgers are unfortunately nothing more than display pieces while the 615 goes back to its respective box. Is that ok with you sir?