Fancy pants Haas brushes...recent reviews?

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So I've been given the full sales spiel at burghley about the black horse haas brushes and I'm not sure whether to buy into it. I feel they maybe would just encourage me to spend more time grooming as I'd bought a fancy pants expensive kit. However, if they can make the already gorgeously shiny BBP even more shiny and gorgeous I'd love to see it! I barely groom him as he doesn't seem to love it and he's always shiny anyway. I'm not convinced about the different coat colours as I'd say he has a finer glossier coat than my gray, bay and buckskin ponies but they want me to spend more and buy an extra brush just because he's black.

I saw lots of reviews last year and wondered how those of you who got the brushes a while ago are gettting on now? Do your ponies gleam still Or did you get bored, reduce the elbow grease and are back to normal?
 
I didn't buy a whole set as it was too bloody expensive. I bought the schimmel only for a very dirty skewbald mare who lives out all year round. I'm so pleased with it, I love it and love how it makes her white patches shine. It's good at removing grass stains but you still need some elbow grease too
 
I have the Military for my black/very dark bay and I really love it. I use the outer bristles to get any dried mud off and then brush normally (using a metal curry comb to clean). The amount of scurf that comes out is impressive! Then I finish off with the coat shine one (if I am feeling fancy). I only ever really use those two. They are expensive but I do use them all the time.
 
I got the full set as I have a black, 2 chestnuts and a bay tobiano.

Love them all, except the Diva which seems a bit pointless.

The coloured is the only one out competing at the moment so has 3 of the brushes in his show kit. I need to buy a few duplicates so everyone has a full kit of their own.
 
I bought the Schimmel, the Lippizaner and the curry comb. Unless you are really into grooming and want to spend ages on it then I'd just get the Schimmel and maybe the curry comb. The Schimmel is brilliant at getting rid of stains and bringing up scurf, it really is a good brush.
 
Another one who only bought the Schimmel and the one with the lambskin, the Diva I think. They are as good as they say. Mine is always rolling and filthy but the Schimmel will have him presentable with a quick flick

Whatever you do dont buy them from Ecqulsiv. Athleteshop are cheap but stock is patchy. You can get them from Polished Ponies as well.

http://www.polishedponies.co.uk/haas---premium-grooming-brushes-34-c.asp
 
I didn't buy into the whole colour thing and only bought the brushes as recommended on here. I ended up with the schimmel, pinto and welsh. I love them, they really work well and bring the coats up to standard quickly.
 
I got the bay set for Christmas and really like them. I am far too lazy, and don't have the time, to brush my horse four times, once with each brush. In the winter I tended to use the coarse one (Military?) most, and the medium one (Cavaliere?) and in the summer the medium one and the finer one (unpronounceable, begins with an F). Haven't yet used the Diva at all. Having reverted to an old but good quality body brush while I took the Haas brushes home to wash them recently, I do think they are better and get him shinier quicker. The bristles are just the right length and density to deal really well with mud, dust and whatnot.
 
I'm still very pleased with mine. I have a bay and a grey set, one set each for my bay and my coloured mare. That might seem extravagant, but it keeps the white hairs off my bay mare.

I do find that the best results come if you use each brush of the set in turn. The schimmel or military gets up the deep grease and scurf, while the Lippizaner/cavalier and then the blue unprounouceable one beginning with f lifts it all out. I still get lots of crud out and onto the curry comb with the third brush in the sequence. I finish off with the Diva, which does a nice job, but IMHO a polishing cloth would do as well, so the Diva is the one I would omit if pennies were tight.

I spend perhaps 10 mins per horse tops whizzing through the grooming sequence. The horses love it, and so do I.
 
Haas are very well made, high quality brushes. I have a couple (don't know their names) and they work extremely well (with the also-essential elbow grease applied, of course). I particularly like the fact that they are mostly made from natural bristle.
 
Tiddlypom said:
I'm still very pleased with mine. I have a bay and a grey set, one set each for my bay and my coloured mare. That might seem extravagant, but it keeps the white hairs off my bay mare.

I do find that the best results come if you use each brush of the set in turn. The schimmel or military gets up the deep grease and scurf, while the Lippizaner/cavalier and then the blue unprounouceable one beginning with f lifts it all out. I still get lots of crud out and onto the curry comb with the third brush in the sequence. I finish off with the Diva, which does a nice job, but IMHO a polishing cloth would do as well, so the Diva is the one I would omit if pennies were tight.
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I think I'm missing the in between one between scurf lifting and polishing and it happens to be my birthday on Monday so I think some new brushes are in order!
 
I bought the brushes individually, would I be right in thinking the "Black" pack consists of: Cavaliere, Lipizzaner, Parcour, Fellglanzburste (gloss) and Diva? And is that the right order of use? Tia
 
Go on, Leo Walker, you know you're worth it! Happy birthday in advance.

For HBB and others, hope this helps. I used to have these pics stored on photobucket, rats, but here they are now on Imgur.

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Bay set

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I got the full grey set as a xmas present and ye they are pretty impressive actually. I'm not a huge groomer as my horse is grey, loves mud so generally I can't be bothered but one of them is particularly good at getting stains out
 
Am i the only person in the world un-impressed with Haas brushes? Yes they are nice but i cant see that they are any better in any way than a regular good quality grooming brush?
 
I tend to agree :) I've got 2 for a bay horse , cavaliere and something else, (military maybe?), not the schimmel which seems to get recommended a lot
 
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Thanks very much! I'm really tempted to buy them today so I can take them home to play with but don't want to pay over the odds. Hmmm
 
The colour thing really is made up rubbish, but what a stroke of marketing genius. If someone has more than one horse and they are different colours, then you need to buy two, three or more sets?
 
I have Haas Mustang brushes that I got at sale price. They are brilliant on my Welsh cobs winter coats. They look harsh but the ponies like them. I use them first followed by the schimmel. They have rings of brass bristles between natural bristles and really get mud off.
 
blodwyn1 said:
I have Haas Mustang brushes that I got at sale price. They are brilliant on my Welsh cobs winter coats. They look harsh but the ponies like them. I use them first followed by the schimmel. They have rings of brass bristles between natural bristles and really get mud off.
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Ooh; haven't heard of this one. I've got a skewbald Welsh coverage cross who loves mud and has quite a thick coat, do you think it would be good for her?
 
poiuytrewq said:
Am i the only person in the world un-impressed with Haas brushes? Yes they are nice but i cant see that they are any better in any way than a regular good quality grooming brush?
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No you're not. Just good marketing yet again. In my late teens I had a grey mare, and groomed her properly every day. When the lady came to clip her for me she asked if I had bathed her she was so clean. I used a dandy brush then body brush, both cleaned on a curry comb whilst grooming. Tail untangled with fingers, mane combed over then nose, eyes, bottom etc and then feet. Final rub over with an old silk shirt.
 
I have just one for my skewbald - the Schimmel - an it does a great job of lifting out grots from the bottom layer of his coat. He loves to roll and grinds everything in to the skin.

Most of my brushes are old favourites (my body brush is over 35 years old!) and do a good job, but this is a useful addition.
 
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