Vulfix brushes are very good performers. I would not say top notch but certainly very good.
They happen to be a bit floppy compared to Shavemac, Simpson, Savile Rows etc.
The hair is not of inferior quality but just less densely packed IMO
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Vulfix brushes are very good performers. I would not say top notch but certainly very good.
They happen to be a bit floppy compared to Shavemac, Simpson, Savile Rows etc.
The hair is not of inferior quality but just less densely packed IMO
The 'scritchy' brush tends to exfoliate a bit more, removing dead skin layers. Other than that, it's pretty much personal preference. I don't think there's much difference in water retention between badger grades, IMHO.
Generally, the stiffer brushes (not scritchier, but stiffer ... with more 'backbone' even with softer bristles) tend to be better with soaps, where you need to 'dig' into the soap a bit more. Look for firmly packed bristles, a low loft of the bristle-head hight, and a bulb shape rather than fan, to help get toward a firmer brush. Stiff or floppy, like biig or small, is personal preference, not good & bad.
A really good 'soap' brush is the Simpson Chubby #1. You can get that in Best for about $125. http://www.leesrazors.com/simpsonsBrushes.htm
Personally, I love my Vulfix, it does the job nicely, has great water retention and holds the lather well. Never had a problem with it, but it does shed a hair on occasion. Besides, you can't beat the cost.
Personally, i prefer Shavemacs... i have 4 of them. my favorite is the 429, 23mm in finest (~$70). i also have a 177, 23mm silvertip (~$100), a 220, 28mm silvertip (~$140) and the new VLB.
Most of them i got from Jim at vintage blades
to be honest i do not find much difference between the 429 and the 177. but that is just my opion they are both dense and pleasurable brushes to use.
so do most of you have multiple brushes? I've heard of having a rotation of blades but not of brushes. The rationale behind multiple blades was to reduce wear and increase time between honing I thought. Is there a reason for multiple brushes or are we all just straight addicted?
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I rotate a bunch of brushes including Vulfix, Simpson, Maestro and Shavemac. I love the 28mm and 30mm knot Shavemac brushes with the lightbulb shaped badger. Awesome brushes.
Lynn
saladbarMM,
Its addiction pure and simple. In a pinch one can rub soap on one's face with fingertips. I've never cared for pinches much so I tried a brush and then wondered if I had chosen the right brush. Finding out the correctness of my choice required buying another brush. Determining how correct my correctness was required buying yet another brush to figure out how to work this hypothesis/theory/law thing. I find myself real close to hypothetically buying another brush just to test this theory. There's no law against that, it there?
I've heard that pills are available to help cure my besottedness, I wonder if they will work on my brushfulness?
one can always hope, but in the meanwhile another brush might hit the spot, Bruce
well I've been spending all my money on blades lately, and it was soaps and creams before that. Brushes could be next or maybe more stones. I guess there is no end in sight to how much we could spend on all this stuff
They say that SBAD is the last, and most costly, of all the ADs. :gth
But seriously ... a rotation of brushes seems pretty common, partly as a way of giving the brush more than one day to dry out, partly because some brushes work better with creams or with soaps, partly for the sake of variety, and partly as an homage to our search for the perfect brush.