My Rooney Finest is an excellent shaving brush but it not do so well with this shave stick as do the Plissoft/angel-hair synthetics, in part (I think) because the synthetics absorb no moisture. I rubbed the Razor Emporium against the grain all over my (washed, wet) stubble, and I did note that it perhaps was not depositing so much soap because the paper was too high.
When I tried to bring up the lather, the brush eked out only a film of lather on my face, with no noticeable lather in the brush itself. I tore off more of the paper, and went at the stubble again, making sure that plenty of soap was scraped off, and I rewet the brush. This second effort did indeed produce a good lather, and the brush was filled for the later passes, but it was more of a struggle than with the synthetics I’ve been using. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll try badger again, with a different shave stick, and see how it compares. Another of this set of Rooneys, I think.
Well-lathered, the shave itself was man’s play: three passes with the Rockwell 6S using the R3 baseplate, using the brush’s reserve to lather prior to the second and third passes, left my face effortlessly smooth, and a splash of Annick Goutal’s Eau du Sud finished the job and start the holiday morning very nicely.