Synthetic, are people warming up to it?

Right, pure lack of personality there :D
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im another one who switched to synthetics. id previously used simpsons and shavemac brushes, and boar brushes but synthetics just work loads better for me. i mainly use three, an asylum scanlon brush, muhle silvertip fibre and a whipped dog 24mm. the asylum is my favourite, a great brush.
 
My long-handled Zenith 27mm 507RCTS brush arrived from Spain today. As usual, it lathers like billy-oh and handles nicely.

Musing on this topic, I considered how much I've gone over to synths. I always bowl-lather, and mashing an expensive badger into bowls, of which my newer ones have very prominent lather rings/grooves, now seems even less of a good idea. The synths take this stick without, as they say, turning a hair.

Perversely, I like a bit of badger-scritch in a brush, and that's not a possibility with Plissons. The Muhle V2 (?) that I have, does provide it. I'm not sure if their Silvertip Fibre does too, but I guess these knots are exclusive to Muhle, which rules out all the fun variations of handles and so forth, which come from a knot type used in common by many makers.
 
My long-handled Zenith 27mm 507RCTS brush arrived from Spain today. As usual, it lathers like billy-oh and handles nicely.

Musing on this topic, I considered how much I've gone over to synths. I always bowl-lather, and mashing an expensive badger into bowls, of which my newer ones have very prominent lather rings/grooves, now seems even less of a good idea. The synths take this stick without, as they say, turning a hair.

Perversely, I like a bit of badger-scritch in a brush, and that's not a possibility with Plissons. The Muhle V2 (?) that I have, does provide it. I'm not sure if their Silvertip Fibre does too, but I guess these knots are exclusive to Muhle, which rules out all the fun variations of handles and so forth, which come from a knot type used in common by many makers.
FYI @Ferrum , Edwin Jagger synthetics use the same Muhle V2 knots and they have a few different handle choices, including 'tall' handles available only from Connaught (no affiliation).
 
I'm genuinely really enjoying my Simpsons Synthetic, a 57 handle Synthetic would be my grail I think.

Maybe we could convince them To do a TSR LE

Got a SOC where the knot maybe on its way out, I'm very tempted to reboot with Synthetic.
 
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