Thread: What's your favorite shaving brush?

For me, right now is a synthetic knot set in a handmade resin handle.

Difficult question. It's like picking a favorite color or song or child. Depends a lot on my mood. I have three brushes that get a lot of attention. A custom I got as a gift from a friend, a custom made with wood from a tree I fell and milled, and a cheap brush I take on the road with me. I am away from home more than 6 months a year. I would use the other two more if I was not afraid to take them away when I go. I could not choose between the two customs. They are perfect brushes for me with different handle styles. The cheap brush I use I steamed the knot out of it and reset it twice in order to get it just right. I like a soft brush with a lot of backbone, I tend to face lather and use hard soaps.
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All my brushes are silver tip badger.

That is as difficult as favorite razor but... Today if I had to pick three they would be a Simpson Polo in Super, a Vulfix 377 in Silvertip, a custom Shavemac in two-band.

Tomorrow that may all change but these three have great tall handles, super soft tips, no scritch, and have been favorites for a while.

In badger it would be Simpsons Manchurian, in boar Omega 10066 and in synthetic it would be Simpsons Chubby 2. Generally I reach for one of my synthetics more than the others.

Bob

So far, my Plisson High Mountain White #10 Badger Brush rules supreme for me, for face lathering my Simpson's Chubby 1 Super Badger is hard to beat, my Walleyman custom is fun to change things up, and today after a fun purchase from the Classifieds here at SRP, going to try the biggest mother of a brush I've personally ever seen, a Polo 10 Super Badger...looks like it will be a monster bowl latherer and may only need to dab myself somewhere in my nose region to lather my entire face....

My three Thater 4292's a 3, 4 & 5. All dual band silver tips. Can't say I like one more than the others, but I sure like them all.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Difficult question. It's like picking a favorite color or song or child.

favorite brush VDH pure badger $20, favorite color purple, favorite song "dancing in the moonlight"-toploader, favorite child-my only child- Mr Noah...

My fiance uses a razorock plissoft brush I got for $10 at italianbarber. before she got that she used an old peerless brand synthetic that had gen 1 nylon bristles. like lathing with a wad of fishing line.

Thater 4292/3 and Superior Shave Nusbaum silver tip. I am preceding smaller knots nowadays

I like boars and I use them like I hate them. However, I have a 25mm homemade Shavemac 2 band silver tip fan that about as nice of knot as I've run across.