Overall excellent value
Pleasantly surprised by the quality of this brush since I only bought it to use at my vacation home and didn't want to spend a lot of money on it. It has everything I was looking for: the typical water-holding quality of a good badger brush and the right balance of softness and firmness.  It whips up lather better than any of my other brushes and after shedding a half a dozen hairs in the first five or six shaves, it virtually no longer loses any hairs with daily use.  I'm planning on buying more to replace my more expensive but under-performing brushes.
Rating: 4 stars