Thread: This is just unexceptable

Now where was that I saw a W&B Full Hollow Special

Oh yeah I remember now....



http://straightrazorpalace.com/314679-post41.html



I have one

dunno glen, yours don't look all that special
doesn't have the right scales and the blade is honed very uniformly

Heh, it came shave ready AND shave tested. That's got to be worth a couple of hundred right?

Altimas blades are generally very nice and I would accept an asking price from him in excess of 100 dollars USD, but that price is insane!

I guess you could say that altima55 has brand recognition.

He's built up a name for himself & his razors are recognised to be exactly as described (apart from the re-pinning). I just cant see who'd go that high. Shave ready always attracts a premium, but be really is reaping the benefits of his reputation recently!

Be careful guys. Back in the day there was a guy that bought every good razor on Ebay. If he is back (or someone similar) we're all in big trouble. He didn't care what he had to pay for a razor as long as he stopped all of us from ever having one.

This guy could be similar. Imagine Bill Gates getting into straight shaving and collecting and with full blown RAD. I think it was more than a year before the average buyer could pick up a good razor off Ebay.

I would suggest, at least in a public straight razor forum, that we not make too much fun of someone paying this much for a straight. It might look odd to us, but consider the real ramifications of someone that is collecting good straights and does not consider money an issue.