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Sun 10 Nov 2024
- Brush: Mühle Purist (21 mm silvertip badger, ebonite handle)
- Razor: Schick Repeating Razor Type C
- Blade: Schick Injector Blade
- Lather: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
- Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
- Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
❤Sea❤Spice❤Lime❤
I used this two AAs in a row until my wife asked me to cool it with "the lemony one". Such a treat to use.
This is my first time using the tiny Mühle (they call 21mm "medium" for some reason) with the pretty handle and it's a real adjustment coming from bigger, denser knots. This thing has basically no back bone and feels empty. On the other hand, even on this first use, it lathered surprisingly well and had zero badger funk. I'm curious whether I will appreciate this style of brush after a few days of using it, or whether this was just a pricey mistake. Currently leaning mistake, but open to be convinced, since objectively, it didn't make a bad lather at all.
The only badger knot I have that size I now use for talc. I was pretty set on 24mm as my max until I bought my 29mm Thäter. After that and the Wald 27mm I was spoiled.
I know what you mean. My other badgers are 27mm (Zenith), 28mm (dogclaration) and 30mm (Moar Badger) and it's a different story.
I have a 24mm Dec B3 waiting for me at Eldrormr's, and I'm curious about that. I think I would like a small denser knot like a B3 or a Maggards silvertip, but this sparse tiny knot is a not yet acquired taste 😅
I have several 24mm knots that I like. We just get spoiled for choice with the larger knots. We Americans have a phrase for this that originated in the WWII era, "Smoke 'em if you got 'em". 😅
SSL++
Ah man, that's too bad. The handle is so pretty!
Worse come to worst I suppose you can always try to pull the knot and replace it with something better?
Yeah, maybe! But in the meanwhile, I'll give it a good chance. Wouldn't be the first time I come around on something like this.