I’m doing the section of shaving brushes, and I do see the validity of a criticism some have made: it’s too much like showing off my own personal collection, which is not so interesting to others as it is to me (cf. vacation photos—and a wonderful example my mother once told me about: the Roy Rogers museum, which at the time (he was still alive) seem to consist in part of things he had but no longer used, such as all his old wrist watches. So I’m looking skeptically at all the brush photos and lists.
My thought is to cut it back to the facts of interest about the particular brush type (synthetic, horse, boar, or badger) and list some recommended brands and perhaps even a few brushes of particular interest—though with horsehair brushes, I don’t identify any specific model.
Because I’m not rushing toward a deadline, I have the time to reflect on the text as I go. And this section seems to require some serious pruning.
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