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Could be a cultural thing. :shrug:;)

Another is " I wouldn't say no" as an answer to something like "do you want more coffee?" That usually stumps the server asking the question over here.

Bob

Yea, If you get a good one don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Bob

Yea, I can't tell from the photos either. To me they are so similar in the tips that they were either all cut to form the knot or none of them were. Of the two picks so far for being cut to shape,...

Just going to post photos of 5 used silvertip knots, 2 from China and 3 from the EU. Which have been cut to form the knot?

Bob

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OK, I am a slow learner. So the base of the forming cup is domed toward the inside to form the knot. This gives the knot it's shape. High domed is bulb, a lower dome is fan and no dome is a flat...

From looking at those photos and others in this thread I am starting to wonder if the shape of the knot is formed when the knot is cinched tight by tying it.

Bob

That is why I was confused, the 5 silvertip badger brushes all had to some degree both thin fine tipped hairs and thick blunt hairs which were sometimes black. Of the 5, two were three band and three...

What I think I am seeing is that both knots do contain some thicker blunt tip hairs that I take are cut hairs assuming thin fine tipped hairs are uncut. One appears to have less blunt hair tips and...

I was just looking at the tips not how dense they appeared to be. Like I said my untrained eye and what I thought I was seeing. So it appears that I just might be mistaken about the tips.

Just to...

Just checked the tips of 5 badger silvertip brushes, 3 from the EU and 2 from China. I used the hand loupe I had for honing and to my untrained eye I had a hard time seeing much of a difference in...

The Simpsons vid of knot making in an earlier post does show staff trimming the knots in the final stage just before gluing and assembly with the handle. The trimming was done on the butt/glue plug...

Oddly enough I was agreeing with your first footnote re quality in similar high tech stuff. That goes to the point that they do have the will to produce products and ensure quality of those products...

You'd better hope all their products are not cheap and inferior or the are a lot of people flying around in Boeing and Airbus aircraft with suspect Chinese made sub assemblies.

I always thought...

Yes, I'd have to agree. No one country has a monopoly on intelligence and the ability to produce a quality product. The only difference I can see is in the will to make that product in the first...

Yes, intrigued and not disputing that myself. Is it possible that instead of settling the hair in the forming tube on a flat surface that they are settled on a curved surface? Then hand tied to keep...

No shame really as there are quite a few nice brushes to be had besides Thater and that is not to be misconstrued as a knock on Thater either. I do have a Simpsons Manchurian Jubilee brush that I...

To late on some of those as I already had them, namely a Revisor razor and one CF shave cream. I can easily do without any of those products that you have listed. I am also sure just as it is no...

I refuse to buy a Thater brush for that very reason, it seems to be on his list.

Bob

OMG, not hand tied!! :angel::dropjaw:

Bob

No worries, he should be bob bob bobbin along shortly. :D

Bob

This is what a hand tied Simpsons knot looks like after it has been exposed by accidentally dropping the brush Chubby 2 Super carnage .

This is how Simpsons knots are made...

Here is me thinking the OPs question in this thread was where to source badger hair knots from. The "argument" was whether one source was a more ethical choice than the other because one had better...

To know with any degree certainty you'd need a peek at the "real" books which not many people are privileged to see. We are all just making a living including the workers in China. It depends on what...

The only high end badger knot that I have is a Simpsons Manchurian if you discount an SOC 2 band badger brush and a Muhle Retro Silver tip badger brush. Even though I was surprised at how much the...

Yes, my thoughts also. I will use a TGN Finest 2 band if I reknot another vintage brush handle and decide on using a badger instead of a synthetic knot.

Bob