Thread: Benefits from high end badgers?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Hmm...high end badgers. What makes them high end do they live in apartment buildings or eat caviar or wear fancy duds?

Yes they do and they also drink Champaign cocktails and have scullery maids clean up the mess they leave on the kitchen floor.

Thanks for your replies, by reading the posts so far I will not by rushing out in the near future to purchase a $160 plus brush.

I have expensive badgers and cheap badgers and to be honest for me I like the cheaper ones better. Face lathering I find it easier with a smaller knot and higher loft with less density makes lather quicker, but the shorter loft denser silvertip feels like a cloud on the face. It just depends on what your looking for.

Originally Posted by planetocean

Yes they do and they also drink Champaign cocktails and have scullery maids clean up the mess they leave on the kitchen floor.

Thanks for your replies, by reading the posts so far I will not by rushing out in the near future to purchase a $160 plus brush.

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

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 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.

High end brushes are just that, you pay for the quality of the craftsmanship and the materials that go into it, also the experience that the company has manufacturing brushes.

Just like a crappy GM or Ford vs. a Bentley. They are all cars, do you want a car or do you want luxury. Can you tell the difference between the top of the line Ford vs. Rolls Royce, ride quality, suspension, handling whatever you want to compare

Just like a crappy Paki Razor vs Thiers Issard. Same discussion. If you think that a brush is just a brush then you are not after the quality and the luxury that they provide.

Sam

While there is certainly an element of that, Sam, I'd say that it's more of a ymmv thing. My Omega Pro 49 was the least expensive of my brushes, yet the performance is on par with all of them. Backbone and soft tips, great lather and it seems like it could survive a nuclear war. Not bad for under $10. Comparing TI to a Pakistani razor is not the same. Never mind that my last TI had crooked scales with a blemish in the finish. Sometimes, "you get what you pay for" needs to be tempered by "a fool and his money are soon parted". More expensive does not always mean better.