Show off your pre bloom and bloom badgers

I got inspired by mohanapte's thread, and thought it would be cool to see your brush in pre bloom (unused, I mean) as well as the beauty in full bloom. I'll start with my Rudy Vey silvertip 24mm 50 loft buffalo handle brush :

This picture is taken by Rudy Vey himself before the brush was shipped to me It's the only pre-bloom picture I've got.




Oh yeah, God bless the blooms!

-Compaq

Great idea! My favorite:





Ken

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Looking good!!

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This one is sexy as hell.

Here are two restores I did...Ever Ready 50R with 22mm Grade A Silvertip (48mm loft) and an EverReady 100 with a 20mm Extra Stuffed Finest (46-47mm loft).

Very nice!

This is a great thread!

Great idea for a thread Will post whenever i can take some pics.

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after

Wow! look at the differences! I don't have a picture of my brush pre-bloom - now I wish I had taken one!

RV 30mm

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That's the brush you made, right? That "imperfect" turned handle is perfect! I absolutely love it!!!!

Vlad said:

RV 30mm

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Man, it looks like that knot is set deeeeep? How's the backbone of that 30mm(!)?

to both!!

huntmol said:

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That Rooney Polo finest is making ME drool!

Nice

Ken

Compaq said:

Man, it looks like that knot is set deeeeep? How's the backbone of that 30mm(!)?

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Perfect. (Unless you're a Shavemac 2-band D01 at 42mm kind of guy!)

above angle of my 3 brushes. from left to right.
omega boar
the super badger previously showed
and the vei long in silvertip

I'm noticing that a lot of the fan shaped brushes look a bit bulbous pre-bloom. How can you tell from a pre-bloom if the brush is fan shaped?

I'm looking at the Duke 2 on Jarrod's site but I'm not sure which ones will be more fan shaped. My other brush is bulbous and I'm looking for something a bit different.