Review (1/5): it was a good buy, and certainly cheaper than everywhere else I'd ...
I bought this item for my wife, as she was getting into DE shaving and wanted a brush & razor stand. I figured for $8, it was a good buy, and certainly cheaper than everywhere else I'd seen shaving stands.
Well, you get what you pay for.
There are several issues with this:
- The acrylic bowl is SMALL. It barely fits my Art of Shaving badger brush, which is smaller than most other brushes I've seen; my wife's Omega boar brush takes up all available space and she's unable to get a good lather going in the bowl itself.
- The neck to hold a brush? It doesn't fit any of the brushes I tried except for my small badger brush, which has a knot size of something like 18mm. I can get my wife's Omega brush to fit in the stand, but I have to bend the bars out, and it's just not a good fit.
- The two loops at the back to hold the razor? Apparently you have to have a REALLY skinny handle on it. It does not fit my Muehle R89 razor, my Gillette NEW open comb razor from 1932, nor my wife's Maggard MRP. I'm not sure what razor it WOULD fit...
I'd return it, but it wasn't fulfilled by Amazon, and it'll end up costing me more in shipping to send it back; I think I'm going to use it as a giveaway for a contest I've got going and see if someone else can use it; I'll be buying the wife a new razor stand that will, for sure, fit her razor and brush...