So yesterday when I first took the brush home, I thought the knot felt to me a little like the body shop brush in that while it was extremly soft, it felt cheaply made, for lack of a better word. You can run your fingers through the middle of the knot with no pressure at all. It felt light and thought it was just a great "value" brush. Used it for a full shave today, pretty amazed how it preformed. Will probably be my daily brush, if I leave my whiskers to grow a few days will probably look for my vulfix. My experience with brushes is very limited but for what it's worth, I'm slowly falling in love with this brush. "Brush of the Gods"? IMO probably not, brush for me? Very much so.