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Given the history I have with the Frank Shaving publicist I was really hoping to dislike this brush but a brush is a brush and for around £12
delivered it was still worth a try. Well the truth is it ain't bad at all.
The saving grace for this brush is that it uses a fairly firm hair type (not prickly) that can pick up soap and generate lather quite easily otherwise with a knot diameter of 20/21 mm and a high loft of 55mm it's characteristics are fairly predictable. It's not floppy but it's not particularly dense either so it doesn't have the satisfactory face feel that denser brushes provide, the handle is small but has a nice solid feel, it has a finish you'd associate with being moulded in silicon, flawless but a little too smooth and shiny which may change with use. This brush doesn't wow in any department but I didn't expect it to, the New Forest 2201 is superior in every way except price so if you have a limited budget for your first badger or looking for a travel brush then it would fit the bill. If the NF2201 is made available again I'd still opt for that every time.
If the manufacturer could shorten the loft this could be a rather good brush, at the moment it's ordinary but it is certainly worth £12 and would make a good starter brush 5.5/10