Thread: First Brush: Recommend a good silvertip?

TJ,

I have had wonderful luck with both Shavemac and Rooney brushes. Jim Ayars at Vintage Blades has a nice selection of both brands and I can highly recommend his service. Look at the Shavemac 177 and 429; they are very similar but have different grades of hair. The 429 hair will be slightly stiffer and "scritchier" on the face. Rooney also makes some very nice brushes and the Style 2 size 1 and Style 3 size 1 are worth checking out.

The knot size is the diameter of the brush's hairs where they enter the handle. In my experience, when the knot gets much over about 23mm and the hairs get much over 50mm, the brush can get to be a bit of a lather pig, which means that it will create lather just fine, but also will seem to want to keep all the suds for itself.

While this is outside the budget you alluded to, if I had to have only one brush, it would be the Rooney Heritage Emillion. For me it is the perfect combination of stiffness for good, not floppy, body with luxuriously soft tips for that "let me caress your face this morning" lathering.

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