Morris & Forndran

[mainaman]

Got one in the mail today, not direct from the maker, but in minimally used condition.
27mm Heritage knot, in polo style handle.
Great back bone no scritch at all and very soft tips, what one would expect of a two band finest or silvertip badger.

Anyone else own a M&F? Post yours and may be we can get a good thread going showing off those marvelous brushes.

[llalm]

I got a Jade Paladin Falstaff with Lee's Finest knot. Does that count?

[mainaman]

I got a Jade Paladin Falstaff with Lee's Finest knot. Does that count?

Sure why not, the knots are from the same source.

[HARRYWALLY]

I've seen a lot of this around Stefan. Might have to indulge!!

[mainaman]

I've seen a lot of this around Stefan. Might have to indulge!!

Very nice knots for sure.

[JimmyHAD]

I heard that Lee Sabini, formerly of Rooney, is the maker of the M&F, anything to that ? If I thought their finest 2 band was scritchy I'd get one. Soft tips are alright, but I prefer the scritch.

[Phrank]

Gorgeous brush!

These are legendary brushes I hear...can you actually buy M&F knots?

[Phrank]

Very nice knots for sure.

@Atilla - thanks for the info...did not know that.

@mainaman - What's the knot diameter of that brush?

For me, I'm starting to find I like the knot's closer to 20mm...anything else tends to fall into to big a brush for my liking.

[Phrank]

So this one is on the way - couldn't resist going to the other spectrum from my 21mm L7 M&F to this monster.

Seller says it's a Heritage knot, although the handle says, "Finest", either way, it's brand new, never used, and has a 31mm knot with a 55mm loft - I am hoping the "scritch" is very strong in this one.

Morris and Forndran Polo 3 Heritage Badger in a Finest Handle...whatever that means....

[JimmyHAD]

So this one is on the way - couldn't resist going to the other spectrum from my 21mm L7 M&F to this monster.

Seller says it's a Heritage knot, although the handle says, "Finest", either way, it's brand new, never used, and has a 31mm knot with a 55mm loft - I am hoping the "scritch" is very strong in this one.

Morris and Forndran Polo 3 Heritage Badger in a Finest Handle...whatever that means....

I sometimes wonder if there is anything in this sport that doesn't fall under YMMV ? Lee Sabini (Rooney & Morris & Frondran) said he couldn't access the hair for those wonderfully scritchy Rooney FInests and came out with the Heritage line. I had more than a few of them over the years, still have two. They all had good backbone but none had scritch.

But thinking about it, I had a lot of brushes and wanted to thin the herd quite a bit. So I sold all but a couple of my Finests and some Somerset Simpsons. Scritchy all. Well if I had it to do over ........ but that is not the point.

I told these guys that they were scritchy brushes, and AFAIC they were. But after they received them, and had them awhile, I asked if they thought they were scritchy, and to a man they said not that much, or not at all. This puzzled me. BTW, I didn't get any complaints, they were all happy with the brushes.

Giving it some thought I figured out that me being a guy who can only do two passes, whether straight razor, or DE, or I get irritation, I must have some sensitive skin. So what feels regular to many guys feels scritchy to me.

Good luck with that Polo Andrew .........