Thread: Benefits from high end badgers?

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Wait,no hasty decisions,go to the plisson site,ck out the $2800.00 Ivory brush dude,that thing it is said was made from Martian badgers hair,they just have to be better

Actually the ones who live on the Jovian Moons are much rarer and have wonderful qualities or so I'm told.

I use a $20 Silvertip (okay, it actually costed me $23 with shipping) and I'm extremely happy with it. I mean, I can't see how paying 8 times that price will give me an 8 times better lathering. Not even twice, really.

Originally Posted by whiskeypete

I use a $20 Silvertip (okay, it actually costed me $23 with shipping) and I'm extremely happy with it. I mean, I can't see how paying 8 times that price will give me an 8 times better lathering. Not even twice, really.

You know about the law of diminishing returns right?

Originally Posted by JimR

Shavemac is not a low end brush at all. You got a very nice one there, and as for differences you might notice some more backbone or stiffness in a Thaeter, but in general you won't see a huge difference.

+1... Yes you have a worthy brush.

You might find that for a lot less than half the same $dollars$ spent
on some well selected shave soaps you will find more differences
and value.

One day you will see a brush that you just have to have
so do not feel compelled to rush out and get a "better" brush.

21-23 mm is a nice size knot. If you get a bigger knot you
may have to get a bigger face or bigger lathering bowl.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

You know about the law of diminishing returns right?

Actually no, I don't.

Originally Posted by whiskeypete

Actually no, I don't.

It's a simple law - a $5 moonshine will get you about just as drunk as a $25 makers mark, a $50 macallan 12, a $150 macallan 18, or a $1000 macallan 30.
And most people don't think that the stuff that's 3x, or 10x more expensive tastes 3x or 10x better.


Pretty much the same think with shaving brushes, if all you want is something that creates lather to smear on your face, then there are plenty of very very cheap options, just like if all you want from your whiskey is to provide some alcohol into your bloodstream.
And if you want something else, you'll get about as many opinions as there are people.

I like to think of it as the bang for your buck with just about anything is in the lower price points. As you pay more the quality at first rises quickly but then levels off and you pay plenty to get very little additional quality.

Originally Posted by gugi

It's a simple law - a $5 moonshine will get you about just as drunk as a $25 makers mark, a $50 macallan 12, a $150 macallan 18, or a $1000 macallan 30.
And most people don't think that the stuff that's 3x, or 10x more expensive tastes 3x or 10x better.


Pretty much the same think with shaving brushes, if all you want is something that creates lather to smear on your face, then there are plenty of very very cheap options, just like if all you want from your whiskey is to provide some alcohol into your bloodstream.
And if you want something else, you'll get about as many opinions as there are people.

I see the point. Still, a $5 moonshine will earn me THE hangover the next day, the kind that makes me avoid straight shaving for the day. Or any other kind of shaving for that matter. And I do think that Tullamore Dew tastes 10 times better.

I expressed myself poorly by taking only lather in consideration in my previous post. Apart from that, I'm as happy as a clam in a shit-bed, as another SRP user so eloquently put it earlier today, with the feeling I'm getting from it. Truth be told I'm no specialist on the matter. But I managed to lather even Nanny's Vetiver with it, and that's what I consider a top notch performance on my part. Plus there's this thing: I lather on the face, and lather, and lather and at some point the lather is the thickest it could ever get but I still lather on, because the feeling is wonderfully pleasant.

My personal opinion is that many established grooming shops use the same Asian knots with a fancy handle and the brand name stamped in nice elegant fonts on it. And they charge many times the price. There are though the macallan 30 of brushes out there, like Simpson. But I still would think thrice before paying that amount for a Chubby. I believe it's 5x times my current Silvertip, or thereabouts.

I have a small bargin sized badger ST, an Art of Shaving pure badger, and a shavemac SRP 2008 badger ST. The budget sized one is great for traveling and I just don't use it much anymore at home. It's small size vs the other 2 is not as suted to my larger hands... The AoS pure and SRP 08 ST work better on different soaps for me and I use them in rotation with those soaps. After that, I just have not been hit with SBAD, I just haven't looked for another brush. I have felt many at shops and at gatherings and felt no difference that I would notice, but I'm not really looking for anything special, again not a brush nut

A brush is for applying lather to the face.
There is a noticeable difference between boar and badger.
Once you are in the badger segment, some are better than others, but that is like arguing that a ferrari is better than a porche or the other way around. A lot depends on taste and what you want, but both are good.