Thread: DD lifetime unsold at 10 bucks

Originally Posted by justacat

Oh man thanks for bringing this up. Well I have a few Ducks (grim reaper, wonder edge, goldedge, satinedge...) but I also have a few that out-shaves all my ducks. And by a few I mean a lot. To start with all my customs.. livi, zowada, JC.. Every single one of them out-shaves my ducks. The same situation with my pumas. Also some of my TI's (the 1/4 grind le grelot), the Egyptian, the heck even the special coiffeur and some helje... I really don't get what is with the all the people bringing up the prices on the DD. One of my first razors was a pristine wonderedge that I paid through hell to get it thinking that I am getting the holly grail of razors and when I got some other razors in the $50 area that simply felt "better" I was so confused. Let me see who else dares to to speak about their DD....

That's just it. The Ducks, though they are quite easy to hone and do shave well, are not sought after for how they shave. They are collector's pieces. When you get to a point, the difference in how a razor shaves becomes more a matter of how the blade handles with respect to the shaver's preferences and what the shaver's technique is like... and how what the shaver sees while looking at the razor affects how he thinks the blade shaves.

^^ I hope I someday own a duck or two, but again it isn't so much for the shaving... I really think it is more that they have some that are quite the lookers, (mm! Crackled ice!) and all the names, mints, etc. that make them very collectable. They have variety not available in, say, a DOVO or TI, but they were made in a modern enough period that we have much better dating, nomenclature, etc. than we do for a lot of the older things such as a W&B.