July 2015 Acquisition Thread

[Nonick]

Performance may be good to great, but at what cost?

About four bucks I think.

Still too much

 

[Lifes a Peach]

But doesn't looking at the ingredient list for Arko make you shudder? Performance may be good to great, but at what cost?

To be honest I haven't looked at the ingredients until now. Not a glowing list of goodness but have a look at Tabac.

 

[khun_diddy]

Interesting. I never realised that Arko contained a detergent (disodium distrybiphenyl disulfonate). So that's the reason it lathers like a fiend!

 

[stillshunter]

Interesting. I never realised that Arko contained a detergent (disodium distrybiphenyl disulfonate). So that's the reason it lathers like a fiend!

Yeah that's why the name is so short....like OMO or any other laundry detergent.

 

[Lifes a Peach]

 

[stillshunter]

Drool!

 

[filobiblic]

Worth the wait? It certainly looks great!

 

[Lifes a Peach]

Worth the wait? It certainly looks great!

It hasn't touched a drop so it's hard to say. Watch out for a future SOTD.

 

[borked]

Meh, it's just another modern brush.
Go vintage I say...

PS nice brush LaP

 

[alfredus]

BEAUTIFUL!!!
When? From where? How much? Knot dimensions? Lather pictures? Post bloom pictures?

You can't just post 2 pictures and keep us hanging like this!

 

[Lifes a Peach]

Thanks mate

24mm knot, 54 mm loft. It hasn't been submersed in water so no wet t-shirt photos yet Might baptise it when my jar of MdC arrives, hopefully next week.

It was $146 (I think - it was such a long time ago that I paid for it). Like all LE brushes, getting them from A to B was a saga in itself.

 

[filobiblic]

Courtesy of a deal with @Mark1966 who has so many of these that they are too hard to pass by...

(And I do swear that I've got a bad case of RAD recently... [emoji15])

 

[Lifes a Peach]

That's some very nice Metal, @filobiblic . Nice score.

 

[borked]

A package from @stillshunter containing a few things.

 

[Osman]

Just arrived from www.themodernman.co.uk for$15.65 delivered. Use the code EXTRA10 for10% off.
20150714_120008 by Osman Mehmed, on Flickr

 

[eggbert]

Just arrived from www.themodernman.co.uk for$15.65 delivered. Use the code EXTRA10 for10% off.

Another shaving website I'd never heard of until today.

Oh, I misread that as a .com.au site

 

[mr626]

Here I am again! I have acquired things!

-Fatip Grande Nickel
-Semogue 1800 Shaving Brush

 

[khun_diddy]

Here I am again! I have acquired things!

-Fatip Grande Nickel
-Semogue 1800 Shaving Brush

Be careful with the Fatip!

 

[mr626]

Be careful with the Fatip!

Roger that. I'm not inexperienced with open combs, but this is my first 'modern' one. Have most experience with the NEW.

 

[Pjotr]

But doesn't looking at the ingredient list for Arko make you shudder? Performance may be good to great, but at what cost?

Testify brother!

As you're about to scrape your mug with an insanely sharp blade, removing layers of skin? No ingredient is going to cause anywhere near that much damage.