1st experience of a synthetic brush

I can't use synthetic but badger and boar tick all the boxes for me.
The only time I think I'm missing something is when I see a really nice handle, then I count my blessings, money saved.
 
As an exclusive two band badger user, with the occasional boar night, I find synthetics too soft. The tips feel like velvet, when I want a more scrubby sensation.

The older brushes talked about in this thread are almost certainly the old nylon travel synthetic brushes that had the equivalent of fishing line for bristles. Those are...too scrubby, and are best used for dusting one's keyboard.

For the person who enjoys the feather touch of a silvertip, then synthetic brushes are a godsend, with similar face feel, but for people like me, we will never find satisfaction in using a synthetic, regardless of it's performance.
 
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The older brushes talked about in this thread are almost certainly the old nylon travel synthetic brushes that had the equivalent of fishing line for bristles. Those are...too scrubby, and are best used for dusting one's keyboard.

For the person who enjoys the feather touch of a silvertip, then synthetic brushes are a godsend, with similar face feel, but for people like me, we will never find satisfaction in using a synthetic, regardless of it's performance.

There are several different syn. types that fill your bill. Perhaps you have not tried one which is understandable as the syn. "landscape" is confusing. The black fiber has "scrub". I use one every day. The tuxedo does as well, at least for me.
 
As an exclusive two band badger user, with the occasional boar night, I find synthetics too soft. The tips feel like velvet, when I want a more scrubby sensation.

The older brushes talked about in this thread are almost certainly the old nylon travel synthetic brushes that had the equivalent of fishing line for bristles. Those are...too scrubby, and are best used for dusting one's keyboard.

For the person who enjoys the feather touch of a silvertip, then synthetic brushes are a godsend, with similar face feel, but for people like me, we will never find satisfaction in using a synthetic, regardless of it's performance.

Simpson Duke 3 Synth?
 
There are several different syn. types that fill your bill. Perhaps you have not tried one which is understandable as the syn. "landscape" is confusing. The black fiber has "scrub". I use one every day. The tuxedo does as well, at least for me.
I've haven't tried the tuxedo or the black fiber...the ones I have tried are variants of the plissoft style. Is the difference that great?
 
They can however "doughnut" after awhile.

Just to clarify, is 'doughnutting' actually when a hole develops in the middle of a brush when dry?

For some reason I always presumed it referred to your brush fibres sticking together around the edges of the brush, making a doughnut shaped hole, during lathering. I guess it could mean either really.

Anyway, the Razorock synthetics seem to doughnut during bowl lathering, perhaps because the fibres are so soft and floppy. They do still whip up a good lather though
 
I've tried 4 synthetics, but haven't liked any. I only face-lather and find a synthetic difficult to use due to lack of splay, which makes lathering in a circular motion cumbersome. Also, the overal face-feel is well...plastic. I do, however, use a Muhle synthetic when I travel since it dries very quickly, which is important when I'm on the move. Other than that the synthetics I've tried have no other redeeming features. At home I use badgers mostly and boars occasionally. My preferred badger hair is Simpson best and shavemac finest, but I do like shavemac and Thater 3-band silvertip.
 
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