Thread: Knot Sources Pros Cons

Not sure what is the violation Robin?
Being a vendor, or builder does not change the opinion expressed with the supporting picture that the opinion is derived from? Doesn't come across as slander to me either.
Don't need a mod to access common sense and opinion I hope?
JMO.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Not sure what is the violation Robin?

In the rules quoted above.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Being a vendor, or builder does not change the opinion expressed with the supporting picture that the opinion is derived from?

I expect anyone selling a product to understand the product. The notion that these brushes were not hand tied is a clear indication that the poster does not understand brushes. And not just Thäter, but Shavemac, Rooney, or anything else.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Doesn't come across as slander to me either.

Suppose someone were selling brushes with cheap Chinese import knots. Suppose the main differentiator between said Chinese imports and quality brushes is the craftsmanship, including, but not limited to, hand tying said knots. Suppose that someone were insinuating that the differentiator did not exist. What else would you call that but slander?

It's is a given the hair is sourced from China.

Having said that, I think the individual, or the process dictated by whatever company, is the big differentiator between brushes. What hairs are selected, how they are arranged, etc., is obvious to me being the difference between a mail order knot and one from the the recognized producers.

I didn't think a brush could get much better than a Plisson HMW, and I strongly held on to that prejudice, but in the end, the Thater 4125 was easily as nice, and in some ways nicer. Simpson, Rooney, and of course M&F all handle differently, that is where the YMMV comes in, but personally, the difference between the high end brushes is substantial in my opinion, and the M&F seems in a class all it's own it has so many different properties and unique characteristics, if I could keep only one, it would be the Morris and Forndran - so the only thing I can attribute to this is how the actual knot is put together and by who or what process.

Just my humble opinion...

I'm with ya, I get it, and am hip to inference and insinuation. I just don't get it from the post is my point.
He has a thater head in his hand in the pic and says it looks like it's epoxied twice, not hand wound. Doesn't say that that unto itself makes it a cheap chinese or any of the other things you read into what was not written.
What you expect the author to know or not know is kind of subjective as well, isn't it? Not to mention sort of presumptuous on your part?
That's all I'm saying. I dig your posts, and HarryWally's as well. I just don't think what you are accusing or implying his intent was is just in this circumstance.
Cheers.

I think it's funny you automatically think my post was bashing Thater. I love that brush far more than any of my Chinese badger brushes.