Brush recommendation request. please.

Hi,
I have as semogue boar. Not the owners club. i love it. I have a vie-long horse. I love it. I have a Plissoft synth. I love it! (get the picture). They are all solid feeling brushes. They have little splay and what I would call very good backbone. (I think.) I would even say they are dense. I also have2 badger brushes (fine or what the Chinese call silvertip), that are wishy-washy. They are OK lathering brushes but I would like something MUCH closer in substance and performance to the boar and horse brushes that I have.

Now here is the fun part. I do not want to pay more than $100. Any recommendations?
Thanks
DB

 

I would recommend a Simpson Duke 3. I just purchased one and I love it. You can find them for $90.

 

RazoRock 400 with Noir Plisoft Synthetic, two band finest, silvertip:






Stirling:

 

Nice choices, Linuxguile...I was going to recommend the 26mm finest from Stirling. I am ordering one next week; I have heard they are a steal for $39.

 

I've heard that as well. I have the 24mm synthetic and love it, I would have recommended it but the OP has the Plissoft which is basically the same knot.

 

Thanks. From where did you purchase it. I am only seeing it for $116 and higher?

 

Omega makes some nice Silvertip brushes. I have the 6212. I believe that they can be had for under a hundred.

 

really dense?

 

As inexperienced as I am with the terminology I would say dense. For shave stuff I only have two criteria "I like it" or "I don't like it".

 

thanks. i am the same way and i know I don't like thin brushes that splay a lot.

 

Of all places, Amazon! Right now you can get one for $92.64, shipped.

 

so far for me i haven t tried or contemplated a badger brush.i wouldn t want to spend lots and feel only a minimal difference.very happy with 2 semogue boar brushes and 2 razorock plissoft synthetics.

 

Of Course! thanks!!

 

Definitely not thin. And the splay once loaded is marginal

 

According to Jared @PickledNorthern, who has a lot of brushes and recently did a brush comparison in the March 30DC thread, that Stirling brush mentioned is one of the best deals out there in badger brushes. High quality, good denseness and backbone and an absolute killer price.

A second one he mentioned, that I bought myself on his and several other people's recommendations, is Nathan Clark's Envy Shave badger knot called the Envy White. I bought mine assembled in his deluxe aluminum handle called the Alluminati and that cost me $116 shipped to Canada, but you can get it in slightly cheaper handles from Envy Shave, or you can buy just the knot for $54 and mount it in a handle of your own choosing. It's a great brush - very dense with plenty of backbone but soft on the face with good flowthrough of the lather. I am delighted with it.

 

cool. thanks

 

Love my stirling butterscotch fan brush...

 

Easy.

Get one of the following:

Stirling soap company finest badger brush
Maggardrazors.com badger brush

Or, if you can find it...A Wolf Whiskers brush

 

here is one of my Wolf Whiskers brushes. Zoom in for detail. It is incredible!

 

I have a Whipped Dog in high mountain badger in the Luna handle. Great brush and nice backbone.