I began by buying all the best brushes. Name brand silvertip and finest badger. I tried all the most highly reviewed badgers, boars, horse hair, etc. I mentioned this previously, but if there were ever a person singing the praises of a synthetic...I would think I would have been the last. On the contrary...I think a good synthetic outperforms every other knot on the market, regardless of what it is made of. Specifically, the black tuxedo followed by the game changer knot. They are far cheaper to boot. In all fairness, I do still own one badger knot...but I have about 15 synthetics. Technology has trumped nature imo.
Nor is using less soap and water necessarily an advantage. Nor is a material being less hospitable to microbes an advantage. Both are just subjective valuations. What is best really is a personal choice than good. One persons values do not have to become universal.
It's amazing how no one ever refutes my argument. Mass of soap and water used is absolutely objective. So is water absorption. People use subjective opinion like skin feel, and fallacy, like appeal to tradition, to justify the use of natural hair. Synthetics are objectively better performers. Please refute, objectively, if you can. If you like spending extra on soap and working harder for more microbially active lather, eat your heart out.
Read more carefully. Again, no refutation. You won't or can't do it. I don't want to deprive you of your logical fallacies like attacking me and masquerading appeal to tradition as logic. It's disconcerting to people like you when their subjective notions conflict with objective observable and quantifiable reality. You can ad hominem me all you want, and I'll never get upset. When you do it, you concede the argument. You may notice I concede that badger may subjectively feel better to some. Preferences are valid. Notions masquerading, manifesting as asserted knowledge and personal attacks on me are just weak. Game. Set. Match. Good night.
I have no scientific evidence to offer. I prefer the way a badger whips up lather. I prefer the way badger feels on the face. It's my shave . I enjoy it my way. One says synthetics are better. For them, they are. For me, they are not. Bully. Enjoy your synthetics.
Amen to that. Ive owned probably a dozen synthetics and none of them have ever lost a hair. I cant say the same about the boars and badgers that Ive owned. Im seriously tempted when my Merkur Baberpole finally goes bad to just replace the knot with a synthetic one. If I only I could find the Omega S-Brush knot...
YMMV. Ive always found badgers to be kind of overpriced and overrated and synthetics and boars to be just as good and much cheaper. Then again, I prefer a stiffer brush, so you wouldnt expect that Id prefer a badger.
Great,,,,,, now I want to use the Parker so more hair fall off, so I can order a know since I went on you tube and found out how to remove the know,,,,,, Your an awesome enabler!!! Now time to look for handles and build my own,,,, this doesn't look good! T.J.
***************STUPID QUESTIONS WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!****************** A handle is between $15-$30 and a silver tip knot around $35-$60, why not just build your own? Also, any advise who makes quality silver tip knots? T.J.
Its super easy. You just cut the knot off the a pair of scissors, remove the leftover hair and glue with a Dremel and glue the new knot in.
I usually do build my own. My favorites are the suppliers I already mentioned- The Golden Nib & Whipped dog. Whipped Dog is a small company whose owner, Larry will work with you on customization, if you need it.I haven't had problems with his knots, but if you do, he'll make it right. (I haven't heard too many folks say they've had problems with his products, but when there's been a complaint, he's worked to fix it.)
I know this thread has been mostly light-hearted, but I am not sure why we argue about whether or not badger or synthetics are better. The BEST brush is the one that you like the best. Period.
Do you like back bone or super soft? If you like a little backbone but with soft tips i recommend the golden knib finest badger knot.
