Glad you like it! I LOVE the feel of the Rooney Heritage line, but I just cant stand how poor the lather release is. If you dont mind loading extra product though, youll be hard pressed to find a better over all brush than the 2xl
The only place I have ever seen them is VintageBlades in the US.
Is Rooney "super" silvertip the same as this Heritage one?
At first, the hair had a gel-like feel on my face, unlike any other brush I've used. With use, this gel-like feeling has gone away, and I am even happier with it. I can feel the soft tips of this hair more than I used to, but I would not bring the word scritch anywhere near a description of this brush.
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Is Stubby 2 as dense as 2XL? Besides the knot size, do they have similar properties?
Vlad, which batch of XL hair did your 2XL end up with? I just received a new 2 XL from Vintage Blades after missing my old 2XL which I sold earlier this year but this new 2XL that VB is currently offering is totally different in feel then my old 2XL.
The most notable difference is the new 2XL no longer has the gel like tips at all. What I especially appreciate about the new XL hair is that it has ZERO scritch compared to the slight scritch my old 2XL with the gel tips had. It also drys completely soft with out turning hard and crusty like the gel tipped batch would. Anyway, I was just curious if this is a completely new batch of hair for the XL's and if Rooney no longer makes the gel tipped version anymore ... if you would what batch of hair is your 1 and 3XL as well?
I'm not sure which is which. Gel tips to me means zero scritch. So I guess I will say that my 1 and 3 have perfectly soft tips, and my 2 does not. I am certain that my 1 is the original batch because I was one of the the first to get an xl. The 2 is great, but not perfect like its cousins.
Vlad, which batch of XL hair did your 2XL end up with? I just received a new 2 XL from Vintage Blades after missing my old 2XL which I sold earlier this year but this new 2XL that VB is currently offering is totally different in feel then my old 2XL.
The most notable difference is the new 2XL no longer has the gel like tips at all. What I especially appreciate about the new XL hair is that it has ZERO scritch compared to the slight scritch my old 2XL with the gel tips had. It also drys completely soft with out turning hard and crusty like the gel tipped batch would. Anyway, I was just curious if this is a completely new batch of hair for the XL's and if Rooney no longer makes the gel tipped version anymore ... if you would what batch of hair is your 1 and 3XL as well?
The biggest indication on whether or not you have the famed gel tipped XL is how the tips DRY after use. If its hard and crusty,i its the gel tip. My old XL without question had the gel tips and felt like a bit of a soft wet micro fiber cloth when wet but it did have the slightest scritch much like you describe yours.
Again, the new 2XL hair drys completely soft and does NOT feel gel like but is equally as dense but this time with even softer tips despite the lack of the gel like feel. I definitely enjoy it much more than my old XL2 and have been pleasantly surprised with what is clearly a new batch of XL hair.
Yeah, this still sounds contradictory to me. How can the tips be like gel and have scritch? We probably use these words differently, so I'm sticking with my original reply