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Either I have a knack for tickling tw*ts or people really have aversion to Peter's brush. The latter I highly doubt unless you're close-minded fool. This takes me back to when Zach left SMF. I'd a feeling I'd get the same treatment sooner or later. Except Zach was wise in leaving that blasted forum. I'd stake my life the very bitches who complained and moaned about Zach's Boar postings very much against mine with regards to Peter's brush. It's evident what ever brush I can get my hands on, I attempt to post about whether it's good or bad brush. No sugarcoating BS ie I liked couple Semogue brushes 620 and 830 while I didn't like the 1470 due to its flaccidity etc...
This entire novella was posted at New Forest Brush thread I posted at SMF ( sans Gordon's love letter to me because I have that much regard for Gordon or SMF mods until now ) as well as sent over to Gordon:
Gordon,
Thank you for letting me know. I knew there would be wretched haters out there ( not saying you ). Very much same haters on DFS and SMF that posted their displeasure on Peter's brushes starting from his vendor thread HERE and DFS HERE
Interesting how no one pointed out "no vendor bashing" clause. A piss-poor attack and EPIC failure at that in attempt to dissuade very generous Gentleman who took time and money to invest in brushes he like many others are passionate about.
When all Peter did was introduce a brush at reasonable price.
But yet when I post about my dissatisfaction of a $450 custom razor from well known craftsman ( not his fault ) sold by a "reputable" vendor with his own shaving forum, I get pulled aside. Understandable as there are ways of going about it but if my being blunt is not accepted that said vendor is a god or this supposed "honemeister" but razor tugs on beard upon receipt of razor there's something going on there. Bear in mind my experience with other less expensive genuine Japanese razors ranging from 150-300 shaved significantly better. To think the Japanese generally have little to nonexistent facial hair.
There are miserable people out there. Such misery can and often lead to mind numbing ignorance and stupidity. I should know I experienced this in customer service and sales alike.
Also whoever alleged "I got the brushes before sale" is as high as a kite and should learn the facts before spewing their bloody carcass. I don't care if it's Peter's brush or anyone else I love shaving brushes.
Peter announced the sale of the New Forest on 25th of June
New Forest Superior Badger 2201
I don't recall if I posted it publicly but fact is Peter shipped the brush to me on the 28th of June ( 3 days after OFFICIAL sale ) and I was surprised to have gotten it on Friday 2nd of July. Hence the post on the 3rd:
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Since no one posted about their initial impressions on any forum, I reckon why should I not? It's a brush forum after all.
Now that we're on it and I didn't think I had to be really detailed here's proof it was sent to me 3 days after it's initial sale:
I can retake the shot if that's too small.
I got called out on being "anti-badger" here and another forum.
It's funny now that I post a review about positive traits of Badger all of a sudden I have this "hidden agenda."
If people are going to have concerns about me because I passed on the Rooney brushes from 2 vendors who didn't get back to me after week or so of waiting what would possess me to do business with them?
Since I've a contact with manufacture who supplied Rooney's Badgers hell probably even their Style 1-3 handles , why shouldn't I capitalize on it? It's a free market. If people with disposable income or even trust fund babies with stupid money want to spend $200-$649 on brush so be it. Good for them. I'd rather spend that on a genuine Japanese razor. To each his own.
Forgive me for wanting to charge my fellow "shave enthusiasts" 1/10th of its mark up price.
Strangely enough I did buy some brushes from VintageBlades for a buddy of mine since they do not ship worldwide.
For the record as stated in this thread:
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I wanted to update fact that VB did in fact get back to me since their offices were "closed" a memo I have missed since apparently wasn't posted anywhere on their site.
Yet HERE this vendor posts in bold RED they're on vacation and provided shipping details.
Now call me frugal or cheapskate whatever I'm not going to spend $75 on a company who's history is questionable. Come to think of it, the only brush manufacturer I know little to nothing about. I can read ad nauseum the Rooney thread here which was pretty much a pissing contest or the one in TSR no difference.
Make no mistake I've nothing against any Rooney vendor I've simply decided to pass it up.
I contacted Omega and they responded to my brush inquires. I contacted the 2 vendors for Vie-Long and were more than helpful with such inquiries. I contacted Vulfix and dealt with both Mark and Philip. From a client's standpoint one can surmise where loyalties fall under. Of the awesome 3, Vie-Long is dwarfed with its rather short 1940 start .
Never thought I'd openly admit this but I recant my words from past. Having spent $100 or so on a White badger ( which obviously does not compare to people who see fit to spend $566 on brush ) I feel elated. One of my most expensive ( probably the most ) Badger and have no qualms or regrets whatsoever. Why? I was educated on nearly every bit of detail as far as their brush grades are concerned-what makes their brush a brush. Granted I wasn't provided a tour of their factory but that's irrelevant really. The fact remains there's a consistency with their brushes. Brushes that have yet to fail me. Brushes that impacted me. So much so I was compelled to acquire every grade sans Silvertip. I reckon few things remain are the Olive wood brushes and the Barber's neck duster.
Truth be told since you're going to find out about it sooner or later, I've been planning on selling brushes for sometime. Peter got a head start and I'm extremely elated for him.
All the Boars I've accumulated can and should be attributed to Zach's passion for Boars. In the midst of amassing nearly entire Omega line in short time ( due to positive experience from Omega 21047 ) I've grown to appreciate them even more after discovering Zach's threads and I can't thank him enough for that. Words can't describe the sheer awesomeness that exuded from A Beginner's guide to Boar brushes / the science of the Boar and The Psychology of the Boar.
Since I loved my first 21047 Boar I sought to pick up its Silvertip counterpart 599 as well as another in 615. Further, I picked up a Vulfix 2273 Super as mentioned in prior threads. Not to discount my first Simpsons B4 Pure and Wee Scot thereafter.
Later on picked up Vie-Long as can be seen:
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Clearly I have no bias towards any brush. Scratch that I am passionate about aforementioned brushes backed by a manufacturer and great communication of its vendors. One still remains I'm still passionate about my Boars. When it comes to brushes or razors for that matter I'll talk about them be it good/bad I'll spread the word. If people are so miserable with their own pathetic existence and want to be ignorant about it then they can simply click Back button or simply not elect to read my threads at all. There's ~6700 members one or two ought to find something applicable.
Now that I think about it it's people that PM'ed you is one of unfortunate reasons I posted my "Boar Renaissance" thread elsewhere ( even including its counterpart Badger ). I didn't want another episode of what happened with Zach. I reckon there will be whiners so let them whine.
To each his own my friend.
Godspeed,
Cliffs:
Say what?!
---------------------------
So one can sense a pattern here I get banned for nonsensical reason at B&B and now SMF. When you see my postings you see me for who I am there's no interweb personna I create. Unfortunately being the world wide web majority of people are p*ssies. Sitting back with their sticky fingers to their keyboards. Who knew there would be illiterates at a 6700 member shaving forum full of 30 to 9000-year-old seniled farts. A forum where there's supposedly "mature" men. I'm not perfect by any means and if I make a mistake, I admit to it. Especially when I posted that both Classic and VintageBlades were ignoring my Rooney Style 1 Size 1 questions. After being contacted by VB, I updated such thread so they don't look bad for would-be clients. Classic never responded to my queries whatsoever...
You can keep your Rooneys. I'll make my own from very people who provided their Badgers and probably their very handles.
Out of respect for Peter, I'll be changing mine from 7611 ( Peter's 2211 ) to 7608 in reference to Finest grade. If this forum where even a scintilla the 2 aforementioned excuse me I mean 3 forums, I'd get banned with the quickness let's not give Peter a friendly competition and ban Ivan instead. But alas, TSR is no such forum. Far from it, few months being here there are friendly debates that ensue while camaraderie is still in place. Camaraderie that isn't reduced to petty squabbles and favouritism in other forums case a lot of c*** sucking.
Whether or not you picked up Peter's brush is but small portion in this case. This is about a forum like two others each housing 20k members. Run by tyranny and cliques of close-minded circlejerks. If your opinion wavers in anyway shape or form from the general consensus you're not cool.
I'm beginning to think a vendor or two got butthurt over my posting or tw*twaffle members being emofa*gs. Go cry in a corner kid...
Whoever banned me at SMF be it Gordon or whomever: I wish you and your family to live in interesting times and may you find what you're looking for.
Another one bites the dust...
This entire novella was posted at New Forest Brush thread I posted at SMF ( sans Gordon's love letter to me because I have that much regard for Gordon or SMF mods until now ) as well as sent over to Gordon:
bernards66 said:
Gordon,
Thank you for letting me know. I knew there would be wretched haters out there ( not saying you ). Very much same haters on DFS and SMF that posted their displeasure on Peter's brushes starting from his vendor thread HERE and DFS HERE
Interesting how no one pointed out "no vendor bashing" clause. A piss-poor attack and EPIC failure at that in attempt to dissuade very generous Gentleman who took time and money to invest in brushes he like many others are passionate about.
When all Peter did was introduce a brush at reasonable price.
But yet when I post about my dissatisfaction of a $450 custom razor from well known craftsman ( not his fault ) sold by a "reputable" vendor with his own shaving forum, I get pulled aside. Understandable as there are ways of going about it but if my being blunt is not accepted that said vendor is a god or this supposed "honemeister" but razor tugs on beard upon receipt of razor there's something going on there. Bear in mind my experience with other less expensive genuine Japanese razors ranging from 150-300 shaved significantly better. To think the Japanese generally have little to nonexistent facial hair.
There are miserable people out there. Such misery can and often lead to mind numbing ignorance and stupidity. I should know I experienced this in customer service and sales alike.
Also whoever alleged "I got the brushes before sale" is as high as a kite and should learn the facts before spewing their bloody carcass. I don't care if it's Peter's brush or anyone else I love shaving brushes.
Peter announced the sale of the New Forest on 25th of June
New Forest Superior Badger 2201
I don't recall if I posted it publicly but fact is Peter shipped the brush to me on the 28th of June ( 3 days after OFFICIAL sale ) and I was surprised to have gotten it on Friday 2nd of July. Hence the post on the 3rd:
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Since no one posted about their initial impressions on any forum, I reckon why should I not? It's a brush forum after all.
Now that we're on it and I didn't think I had to be really detailed here's proof it was sent to me 3 days after it's initial sale:
I can retake the shot if that's too small.
I got called out on being "anti-badger" here and another forum.
It's funny now that I post a review about positive traits of Badger all of a sudden I have this "hidden agenda."
If people are going to have concerns about me because I passed on the Rooney brushes from 2 vendors who didn't get back to me after week or so of waiting what would possess me to do business with them?
Since I've a contact with manufacture who supplied Rooney's Badgers hell probably even their Style 1-3 handles , why shouldn't I capitalize on it? It's a free market. If people with disposable income or even trust fund babies with stupid money want to spend $200-$649 on brush so be it. Good for them. I'd rather spend that on a genuine Japanese razor. To each his own.
Forgive me for wanting to charge my fellow "shave enthusiasts" 1/10th of its mark up price.
Strangely enough I did buy some brushes from VintageBlades for a buddy of mine since they do not ship worldwide.
For the record as stated in this thread:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shavemyface.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44122" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.shavemyface.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44122</a><!-- m -->
I wanted to update fact that VB did in fact get back to me since their offices were "closed" a memo I have missed since apparently wasn't posted anywhere on their site.
Yet HERE this vendor posts in bold RED they're on vacation and provided shipping details.
Now call me frugal or cheapskate whatever I'm not going to spend $75 on a company who's history is questionable. Come to think of it, the only brush manufacturer I know little to nothing about. I can read ad nauseum the Rooney thread here which was pretty much a pissing contest or the one in TSR no difference.
Make no mistake I've nothing against any Rooney vendor I've simply decided to pass it up.
I contacted Omega and they responded to my brush inquires. I contacted the 2 vendors for Vie-Long and were more than helpful with such inquiries. I contacted Vulfix and dealt with both Mark and Philip. From a client's standpoint one can surmise where loyalties fall under. Of the awesome 3, Vie-Long is dwarfed with its rather short 1940 start .
Never thought I'd openly admit this but I recant my words from past. Having spent $100 or so on a White badger ( which obviously does not compare to people who see fit to spend $566 on brush ) I feel elated. One of my most expensive ( probably the most ) Badger and have no qualms or regrets whatsoever. Why? I was educated on nearly every bit of detail as far as their brush grades are concerned-what makes their brush a brush. Granted I wasn't provided a tour of their factory but that's irrelevant really. The fact remains there's a consistency with their brushes. Brushes that have yet to fail me. Brushes that impacted me. So much so I was compelled to acquire every grade sans Silvertip. I reckon few things remain are the Olive wood brushes and the Barber's neck duster.
Truth be told since you're going to find out about it sooner or later, I've been planning on selling brushes for sometime. Peter got a head start and I'm extremely elated for him.
All the Boars I've accumulated can and should be attributed to Zach's passion for Boars. In the midst of amassing nearly entire Omega line in short time ( due to positive experience from Omega 21047 ) I've grown to appreciate them even more after discovering Zach's threads and I can't thank him enough for that. Words can't describe the sheer awesomeness that exuded from A Beginner's guide to Boar brushes / the science of the Boar and The Psychology of the Boar.
Since I loved my first 21047 Boar I sought to pick up its Silvertip counterpart 599 as well as another in 615. Further, I picked up a Vulfix 2273 Super as mentioned in prior threads. Not to discount my first Simpsons B4 Pure and Wee Scot thereafter.
Later on picked up Vie-Long as can be seen:
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Clearly I have no bias towards any brush. Scratch that I am passionate about aforementioned brushes backed by a manufacturer and great communication of its vendors. One still remains I'm still passionate about my Boars. When it comes to brushes or razors for that matter I'll talk about them be it good/bad I'll spread the word. If people are so miserable with their own pathetic existence and want to be ignorant about it then they can simply click Back button or simply not elect to read my threads at all. There's ~6700 members one or two ought to find something applicable.
Now that I think about it it's people that PM'ed you is one of unfortunate reasons I posted my "Boar Renaissance" thread elsewhere ( even including its counterpart Badger ). I didn't want another episode of what happened with Zach. I reckon there will be whiners so let them whine.
To each his own my friend.
Godspeed,
Cliffs:
Say what?!
---------------------------
So one can sense a pattern here I get banned for nonsensical reason at B&B and now SMF. When you see my postings you see me for who I am there's no interweb personna I create. Unfortunately being the world wide web majority of people are p*ssies. Sitting back with their sticky fingers to their keyboards. Who knew there would be illiterates at a 6700 member shaving forum full of 30 to 9000-year-old seniled farts. A forum where there's supposedly "mature" men. I'm not perfect by any means and if I make a mistake, I admit to it. Especially when I posted that both Classic and VintageBlades were ignoring my Rooney Style 1 Size 1 questions. After being contacted by VB, I updated such thread so they don't look bad for would-be clients. Classic never responded to my queries whatsoever...
You can keep your Rooneys. I'll make my own from very people who provided their Badgers and probably their very handles.
Out of respect for Peter, I'll be changing mine from 7611 ( Peter's 2211 ) to 7608 in reference to Finest grade. If this forum where even a scintilla the 2 aforementioned excuse me I mean 3 forums, I'd get banned with the quickness let's not give Peter a friendly competition and ban Ivan instead. But alas, TSR is no such forum. Far from it, few months being here there are friendly debates that ensue while camaraderie is still in place. Camaraderie that isn't reduced to petty squabbles and favouritism in other forums case a lot of c*** sucking.
Whether or not you picked up Peter's brush is but small portion in this case. This is about a forum like two others each housing 20k members. Run by tyranny and cliques of close-minded circlejerks. If your opinion wavers in anyway shape or form from the general consensus you're not cool.
I'm beginning to think a vendor or two got butthurt over my posting or tw*twaffle members being emofa*gs. Go cry in a corner kid...
Whoever banned me at SMF be it Gordon or whomever: I wish you and your family to live in interesting times and may you find what you're looking for.
Another one bites the dust...
