Simpson Brushes Appreciation Thread

Tonyschin

Tonyschin

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Cannoncocker said:
I really am sorry to read this. I have 14 Simpson badger brushes (12 in Best and 2 Manchurian), and not one quality issue including zero shedding in any of the brushes. The Manchurian knots are nice, but the Best knots are my favorites with their soft tips and ample backbone.

I have a number of other brushes with some higher priced, but I value my Simpson’s as top notched keepers. If I had to pick the one Simpson keeper it would be my Duke 3. It simply does everything great.
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+1 from me also👆
The Duke 2 & 3 in Best are a fantastic brush.
 
Bauhaus

Bauhaus

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Yesterday was my first shave with the Simpson Wee Scot, and I have to say, I didn't expect to enjoy it so much. The brush performs just as well as my other, larger brushes. Yes, it's small, but it's incredibly effective! It works and feels great on my face. I’m truly impressed by how such a tiny brush can deliver such an exceptional shaving experience.
 
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Rufusdog

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Bauhaus said:
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Yesterday was my first shave with the Simpson Wee Scot, and I have to say, I didn't expect to enjoy it so much. The brush performs just as well as my other, larger brushes. Yes, it's small, but it's incredibly effective! It works and feels great on my face. I’m truly impressed by how such a tiny brush can deliver such an exceptional shaving experience.
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Hear, hear. Gotta love the Wee Scot; and all Scots, wee or otherwise.:whistling:
 
blexa

blexa

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Cannoncocker said:
I really am sorry to read this. I have 14 Simpson badger brushes (12 in Best and 2 Manchurian), and not one quality issue including zero shedding in any of the brushes. The Manchurian knots are nice, but the Best knots are my favorites with their soft tips and ample backbone.

I have a number of other brushes with some higher priced, but I value my Simpson’s as top notched keepers. If I had to pick the one Simpson keeper it would be my Duke 3 Best. It simply does everything great.
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I see it similarly!
I also have 32 Simpsons and the Best Badgers are damn good and stand up just as well as my Super Badgers.
I have two Duke 3 Best Badgers from the CENTENARY EDITION and they are even better than the Super Badger hair.




 
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I’ve a Somerset-era Duke 2 with, of all things, a pure badger knot. Pure badger is much maligned, but in this case it makes for a very satisfying lathering experience. My other Simpson brushes have best badger, super badger and Manchurina badger knots, but my favourite hair is the best badger. Coincidentally, my favourite pint is best bitter.
 
Dj-Steved

Dj-Steved

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blexa said:
I see it similarly!
I also have 32 Simpsons and the Best Badgers are damn good and stand up just as well as my Super Badgers.
I have two Duke 3 Best Badgers from the CENTENARY EDITION and they are even better than the Super Badger hair.




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Love those Dukes
 
p.b

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I recently bought a CH3 Platinum synthetic in a tortoise shell handle.

As far I’m aware there has been (at least) four generations of Simpson’s ‘Platinum’ fibre synthetic brushes

  1. A disastrous, publicly assessed, prototype that doughnuted but users seemed to love it until it failed (very quickly). I think @Dipesh may have even been a tester.
  2. Version 2 was launched to great fanfare with Mark Watkinson even calling it Gen5 (a decade before AP Shave Co.). I tried three of these and they were fantastic but the D3 and the CL2 felt far too small and only the CH2 was a suitable size for me (even though I dislike the handle). Some felt the knots were difficult to splay but once splayed they had soft tips and great backbone and the fibres really did feel premium and different to anything else on the market, but you needed a big knot. They did not have any glue-bump.
  3. I became aware of these about 24-18 months when they made a CH3 available and I excitedly ordered one not realising the fibres had changed and thinking it would be an even better brush than the CH2. However, this had a huge glue-bump and very stiff fibres and one or two people on this forum have since mentioned that it’s uncomfortable to face-lather with these brushes. I didn’t even bother to try it as I could instantly tell I’d hate it and sent it back to Simpson.
  4. I recently ordered another CH3 because the fibres looked different on the Simpson website to version 3 and I’m a sucker for CH3 and big knots. My knot has a 6-8mm glue bump which doesn’t feel significant in a knot this size. The fibres are very fine and there are lots of them to so, when dry, it feels reasonably dense. In use the knot is very, very soft and doesn’t have much backbone but does whip up a huge amount of lather very quickly which I guess is a function of it size. The appearance of the knot looks cheap – I’m sure I’ve seen these fibres before in far cheaper brushes which spoils the pride of ownership. At £100 I don’t consider it good value even though I love the handle and overall size of the brush the knot does not have the premium feel of (what I call) the V2 fibres not does it have the exclusivity as I’m sure other knots use them too.
 
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Dipesh

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@p.b maybe, I’ve not used a Simpson brush for a good while now.

That brush looks to have a very similar fibre to the ds cosmetic brushes
 
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MichaelS

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p.b said:
I recently bought a CH3 Platinum synthetic in a tortoise shell handle.

As far I’m aware there has been (at least) four generations of Simpson’s ‘Platinum’ fibre synthetic brushes

  1. A disastrous, publicly assessed, prototype that doughnuted but users seemed to love it until it failed (very quickly). I think @Dipesh may have even been a tester.
  2. Version 2 was launched to great fanfare with Mark Watkinson even calling it Gen5 (a decade before AP Shave Co.). I tried three of these and they were fantastic but the D3 and the CL2 felt far too small and only the CH2 was a suitable size for me (even though I dislike the handle). Some felt the knots were difficult to splay but once splayed they had soft tips and great backbone and the fibres really did feel premium and different to anything else on the market, but you needed a big knot. They did not have any glue-bump.
  3. I became aware of these about 24-18 months when they made a CH3 available and I excitedly ordered one not realising the fibres had changed and thinking it would be an even better brush than the CH2. However, this had a huge glue-bump and very stiff fibres and one or two people on this forum have since mentioned that it’s uncomfortable to face-lather with these brushes. I didn’t even bother to try it as I could instantly tell I’d hate it and sent it back to Simpson.
  4. I recently ordered another CH3 because the fibres looked different on the Simpson website to version 3 and I’m a sucker for CH3 and big knots. My knot has a 6-8mm glue bump which doesn’t feel significant in a knot this size. The fibres are very fine and there are lots of them to so, when dry, it feels reasonably dense. In use the knot is very, very soft and doesn’t have much backbone but does whip up a huge amount of lather very quickly which I guess is a function of it size. The appearance of the knot looks cheap – I’m sure I’ve seen these fibres before in far cheaper brushes which spoils the pride of ownership. At £100 I don’t consider it good value even though I love the handle and overall size of the brush the knot does not have the premium feel of (what I call) the V2 fibres not does it have the exclusivity as I’m sure other knots use them too.
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My experience mirrors yours for the first three (indeed I'm hanging on to my CH2 V2). I haven't tried the CH3 Platinum but it reminds me of what I sometimes think of my APShaveCo G5C: superb, copious lather with the slight but unmistakable feel of a cheap kitchen brush - so I tend to turn a blind eye to that thought 😂.
 
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