Not sure if I should call myself a Vie-Long horse hair brush user - I think I'm more of an owner (12705). I've given it a number of tries but just don't like it. Scritchy, lack of backbone and sub-par performer compared to my other brushes. Then again I think I picked the 'least liked' VieLong - the 12705.
Mhmm, I don't like that one either. The handle is cumbersome and the loft is "floppy." I like the one I have very much. ADDENDUM: Some report that the handle on the 12705 eventually cracks with repeated use.
Yeah I think I picked the wrong one - but since I got it for $3 brand new I thought I'd give it a try. It seems like the other VieLongs are getting much more love though.
Mine is a V-L 13710. I love everything about it. I face lather and have a $30 Frank badger and a BestShave boar. I like all three, but the one I love the most is the Vie-Long.
I have three====12750 butterscotch. Lord Randall white, and Lord Randall mixed knot. I love them all!!!!
I have a Vie-Long 12705. Nice brush for the money ($18) but really funky smelling at first. Slightly "scratchy" too, as you have to use a lighter touch and more of a "paint brush" motion to apply lather. All-in-all okay the money but it gave me no desire to look into horse hair brushes any further.
http://www.giftsandcare.com/en/hors...de-afeitar-caballo-blanco-vie-long-13066.html Vie-Long Horse Hair Shaving Brush "Fan Shape" 13066B The link above is for this brush http://www.giftsandcare.com/en/hors...brocha-de-afeitar-caballo-vie-long-13066.html Vie-Long Horse Hair Shaving Brush 13066. The link above is for this brush Both are very soft, they are not stiff at all so no lots of backbone but these are my favorite two horse brushes
I have Vie-Long 12705B (the one with natural white hair, 50/50 ratio) and i love it. It holds water better than Omega 10066 and provides better massaging sensation. Very pleasant to use. It is a little bit scratchy, a thing that i find odd, as, when it's dry, it feels much softer than 10066, but the second one is not scratchy at all. I hope it will broke it. One plus for Vie-Long, it dries faster than boar. Much faster. The smell is not something too bad for me. I did the "leave lather on the brush for few hours" trick for few times and the smell was gone after two cycles.
My first VL was 13065-1, brown hair 35/65 mane/ tail. It made allot of lather but scritchy and not soft. The. I bought a 12075B, it white fan 50/50 hair and its a very brush, soft with backbone and not scritchy.
