I don’t mean to be a bummer or a buzz kill but the high mountain badger(animal) or Manchurian badger (whatever the correct spelling is) is not a natural badger hair like silvertip. It is basically a process in which they process the hair to be thicker than silvertip. All it does is holds more water where the silvertip already holds a lot of water. Too much I find in some shaves with both my Kent’s I actually find that I make a better lather without soaking the brush and I also find that they lack density and splay out too easily. I still got a wonderful shave and enjoy using them but I find myself using synthetic more than the silver tips for scrubbing purposes and they whip up lather with less soap.
This is my opinion which I’m basically saying the high mountain knot is a Money grab created by Simpson’s


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Doesn't hurt my feeling ... I usually purchase the far less expensive (AKA cheap) badger knots. They shed a little bit in the beginning, but settle down to be a DFK.

Ahh, so you're the one who got it. Gonna have to up my max bids from now on. Just kidding, glad it was a Shave Den member.

I should have figured that you were one of the other bidders. We seem to be looking at similar auctions.

I was watching it as well.

If you need help repairing it, I'm sure Captain Murphy could give you a hand.

That was my thought as well.

Clix. Similar (if not same?) as the Bakelite Simplex head I like, and I know it has fans here ( @gorgo2 ++). I saw that Bob from BRW liked his enough to replate the Zamak head.

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A couple brushes that need a little work ...


The red Made Rite looked too good to pass up and the Erskine will be a project.

Looking forward to these bad boys coming home to get cleaned up!

Should be interesting to see what these guys look like in there original state!!


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I was eyeballing this rubberset for the past month or so and finally made an offer that the seller and I could agree upon.


Bonus is ... I have another coffee mug.

On its way from Italy, Pal Injectomatic.

Coming soon in the mail, 200 Gillette Stainless

coming soon....adopted #282 from jayaruh s fine stable of brushes....zebrawood with a maggard 2 band badger knot....yeehaa

Congratulations! That looks great! Jim does great work.

please tell how they are. i am interested in trying them.

A 24mm Two Band Finest Yaqi Ruby Red, To compare with my 24mm Silvertip:

That's a beauty Andrew.

Your razor collection must be reaching epic proportions! I sold all my vintage Gillettes. No regrets.

Cream dispenser? I take mine black.

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