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Very true on horsehairs. When they became readily available from Vie-Long (horsehair brushes were shunned and unavailable in the UK for many years because of disease fears), I bought several. Many have become tangled and I've had to tease them out to become usable again. I've found that the best-performing Vie-Longs are the butterscotch handle, white horsehair fans, where the fan is flat across the top, and the least good are those with brown horsehair; both bulb and fan. The very worst, oddly, is a badger/horsehair mix, model 14833, which broke the teeth on a substantial metal comb when I tried to disentangle it.Greetings
My experience of Vie Long Horse hair is identical in both respects to Sir Eider's, I have never used a Zenith Brush (of any type) but they do have a really good reputation. I believe the problem is with the horse hair itself, it is IMHO only a suitable brush hair if you paint or very very gently move the brush around in circles with very little pressure on the tips, any mashing or scrubbing, even lightly, results in tangled hairs, and of course the end of the coarser hairs feeling like little pins/needles.
I hope I am wrong but I cannot see any brush manufacturer being able to change those characteristics.
Regards
Dick.
I wonder how is one able to bowl lather in painting motions in a round bowl.View attachment 26405
Hold your Horses! Only way to use this brush, bowl lathering, carefully applying lather with a soft painting motion, to avoid sharp hairs taking stabs at face, but NAH! now used for dusting my mitre saw in the workshop!
Those Zenith synths are first-rate. I like the 27mm ones with the long handles, and now have one white and one red. The service from Yourshaving is, as always, very good, and I always get a prompt answer to any enquiry.Well, I just don't know! I come back on here just this very day after a bit of an absence and already I'm pulling the trigger on a new brush. Buggers, the lot of you....
A Zenith synth from Yourshaving, naturally.
T'will be interesting to see how it compares to my Chubby 2 synthetic which, as most will know, is significantly more expensive.
Those Zenith synths are first-rate. I like the 27mm ones with the long handles, and now have one white and one red. The service from Yourshaving is, as always, very good, and I always get a prompt answer to any enquiry.Well, I just don't know! I come back on here just this very day after a bit of an absence and already I'm pulling the trigger on a new brush. Buggers, the lot of you....
A Zenith synth from Yourshaving, naturally.
T'will be interesting to see how it compares to my Chubby 2 synthetic which, as most will know, is significantly more expensive.
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