YaQi 24mm 'Tuxedo' Synthetic

Mr Bigmem said:
Just had a reply
"Hi this handle is a customer's design, so we will not sell them in our aliexpress store. We also wont sell any more in store after we sell out the stocks"
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Hello dear enabler. Unless i misunderstood, Yaqi will stop selling retail in aliexpress and only go wholesale. After reading this information, combined with the dicounts today, i succumbed and order 2 Yaqis tuxedos. If i don't like them because they are springy, it will be your fault. :mad: Have a nice weekend.
 
donnie_arko said:
Yaqi have a 26mm fan shaped Tux brush which looks nice

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I noticed that, nearly pulled the trigger but suspect it may be a bit big, particularly with the fan shape.
If it had been a 24mm then I would have been well and truly enabled.
 
SeanC said:
I noticed that, nearly pulled the trigger but suspect it may be a bit big, particularly with the fan shape.
If it had been a 24mm then I would have been well and truly enabled.
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In this italian forum page, they have compiled a table, based on user purchases and all Yaqi brushes are 1-2mm bigger knots than what they officially declare:

http://ilrasoio.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=12007&start=500

Even their 24mm, in reality are 25mm or 26mm. The "22mm" that i have ordered in the 1st order, is in reality a 23mm.
 
Obelix said:
In this italian forum page, they have compiled a table, based on user purchases and all Yaqi brushes are 1-2mm bigger knots than what they officially declare:

http://ilrasoio.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=12007&start=500

Even their 24mm, in reality are 25mm or 26mm. The "22mm" that i have ordered in the 1st order, is in reality a 23mm.
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I agree having just compared my 24mm YaQi brushes against a Muhle 25mm
 
SeanC said:
I agree having just compared my 24mm YaQi brushes against a Muhle 25mm
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The theory they 've come up with in that forum, is that Yaqi declared the dimensions of the knot BEFORE it's inserted in the handle and not at the edge of the handle, where we, are used to measure it. As a result, ALL Yaqi knots, are bigger than what they declare, while the lofts might be a bit shorter.
 
SeanC said:
I noticed that, nearly pulled the trigger but suspect it may be a bit big, particularly with the fan shape.
If it had been a 24mm then I would have been well and truly enabled.
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My 24mm Plissoft style Yaqi feels fairly large on the face, I think when I got the callipers out it also did measure around 25-26mm.

I too would have been tempted to go for the fan Tuxedo if the knot had been 24mm (or a touch smaller) but instead i went for the barbershop handle Tuxedo, the same handle as the Plissoft style Yaqi I already have which is an ergonomic delight.
 
Obelix said:
The theory they 've come up with in that forum, is that Yaqi declared the dimensions of the knot BEFORE it's inserted in the handle and not at the edge of the handle, where we, are used to measure it. As a result, ALL Yaqi knots, are bigger than what they declare, while the lofts might be a bit shorter.
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A plausible explanation indeed.

I passed on a YaQi brush with stated loft of 50mm off the back of this.

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SeanC said:
A plausible explanation indeed.

I passed on a YaQi brush with stated loft of 50mm off the back of this.

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If you click the link i posted and read the table they 've made, there is a top measurement , which is the one declared by Yaqi and below, they have added a second measurement followed by "reali". So for example, they say:

24 x 68
25 x 56 reali (this is the real measurement measured by the forum guy who bought it). Not all lofts seem off and not all seem off by the same margin, but most knots are. There is also a mention that this was made present to Yaqi and newer brushes may be getting more accurate descriptions, because now Yaqi is aware of the description incoherence. Bottom line, it's a bit of luck of the draw at the moment, but knots seem to be underdeclared steadily.
 
Just a heads up. In the italian forum, it comes out that some Yaqi brushes have been sent with "excessive glue bump". The glue arrives half way though the knot. Chen (from Yaqi), is replacing such brushes for people who complained and said that newer batches have smaller glue bumps and the models that are guaranteed to have the "correct" (smaller) glue bumps are the sagrada famiglia, the "Ferrari" handle (white and red) and the "space handle".

So, if you got a brush with the glue that arrives at half knot, this was a production mistake of earlier models.
 
Obelix said:
Just a heads up. In the italian forum, it comes out that some Yaqi brushes have been sent with "excessive glue bump". The glue arrives half way though the knot. Chen (from Yaqi), is replacing such brushes for people who complained and said that newer batches have smaller glue bumps and the models that are guaranteed to have the "correct" (smaller) glue bumps are the sagrada famiglia, the "Ferrari" handle (white and red) and the "space handle".

So, if you got a brush with the glue that arrives at half knot, this was a production mistake of earlier models.
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The truth is I always found the glue bump sat too high in the Tuxedo knot (had two of them). However, it's hard to say whether they were in the middle of the knot.
 
Cristobal said:
That's unfortunate. Hopefully, Yaqi will sort it out.
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I hope so, because i don't want to have to read 10 pages of legalese again to learn how disputes work in Aliexpress...

Cristobal said:
The truth is I always found the glue bump sat too high in the Tuxedo knot (had two of them). However, it's hard to say whether they were in the middle of the knot.
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See the photo in the last post of this page (user "axl70"), to see the abnormal glue bump (the post also contains the reply from Chen):
http://ilrasoio.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=12007&start=425

donnie_arko said:
EU/Italian protectionism - they want you to buy a Omega Badger Brush, not a Chinese one.
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I 've bought what, 10 Omega boars and 2 Omega hard soaps? I think i 've made my duty towards the local industry! Seriously though, this isn't the first time that they steal my packages in our post offices. It's just the first time that this happens with international packages. :mad::mad::mad: To hell with them! Besides, the cheapest Omega best badger, goes for 50 EUR (shipping included) for 21mm knot. At this price, i can buy 2 more EJ Best badgers from Amazon.

Ironically, yesterday that i received the EJ Best Badger, i was thinking "having 3 badgers in the rotation will be too many. I will have to keep the pure badger and decide which of the 2 Best badgers to keep and the other i will store it as backup". Well, our lovely long handed post officer solved my dilemma, didn't he! :mad::mad::mad:
 
donnie_arko said:
I think one of them is their synthetic horse knot.
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Really? I didn't know they make synthetic horse too!


SeanC said:
I wouldn't give up just yet. It's been known for items to miss a scan in transit, but still be delivered.

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Ah, a naive englishman. :D You don't know what's going on in the italian post services. Even when everything seems well, you must thing of the worst, because often, they open the parcel, take what they like, close it back and deliver it to you. And then you find yourself in the unpleasant position to have to convince the sender that you really didn't find the object inside... It's no wonder that nobody uses the normal post service to send parcels, aside Amazon, for lightweight stuff only. Because Amazon is scary even for the italian posts. Youtube is full of videos about how people had their stuff stolen while in the post offices.
 
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