Strike Gold Shave Hand Tied Knots

Has anyone tried them yet?  Curious to hear some feedback on them?

I just heard about this earlier today (in a FB group) and it seems very few people have even gotten one, since he just started very recently. It seems everyone now is hand-tying knots and the number of hand-tied knot makers will likely keep increasing as there is a lot of money to be made on this market segment (if knots are good quality, of course).

Was wondering if there is any feedback available yet?

I am expecting two brushes with Frank’s hand-tied knots arrive this week. Will report as soon as I get to them

Here you go:

Here you go:

Beautiful brush! I think knot is very gel-like. But what a lot of black hairs ...

Does not bother me

The knot performed beautifully - fully gelled but not gooey, strong backbone, easily controlled splay, excellent flowthrough, and lather release.

My knotting was well-made, but I find the performance to be fairly meh. It has that B12/Lotus hair with the black hairs. It’s not scritchy, just doesn’t pick up soap easily or lather as I would prefer.