Thread: Big razors on ebay!

Someones selling off some, don't have the links but several biggies in nice shape.

If you're quiet , you can hear the prices going up .

Originally Posted by dave5225

If you're quiet , you can hear the prices going up .

Especially in the last 10 seconds!

We didn't need them anyway.

Any posthumous links?

Chris L

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Any posthumous links?

Chris L

Here is one I think GB 1+1/16" BLADE MASSIVE ! STRAIGHT RAZOR HORN HANDLE ! - eBay (item 280441305519 end time Dec-27-09 13:30:54 PST)

Had my eye on that one till the end.

yeah, those went for some decent money. I missed out at the last minute.

Why are big blades so pricey?

Originally Posted by sharpshavefun007

Why are big blades so pricey?

There's more experienced people here than me, so you can take this with a grain of salt, but in my opinion, it's several factors.

First, I believe that there are no brands of new production, readily available razors in sizes larger than 6/8, so if you really want a larger razor, you're basically limited to purchasing a custom razor or an older razor on eBay, which means that more people are bidding on these sizes of razors, which means that prices are higher.

Second, I understand from others that making a 7/8 or 8/8 or larger blade is much, much more difficult than making a smaller blade, because so many things have to work out perfectly for that large of a blade to be created without any flaws or mistakes in the process. I don't do any metalsmithing, but it makes sense if you think about the process. (I'd even bet that the blades that end up as 5/8 or 6/8 might be ones that originally started as 7/8 or 8/8 but had a flaw somewhere in the edge and were instead ground down to a smaller size.)

The third factor probably outweighs the other two, and it's simply this -- FASHION. The larger blades just look more bad ass, or at least those are the blades that people ooh and ahh over on websites like this, which means that everyone reading these comments learns that these are the more "desirable" blades, which forces the prices up, which reinforces the notion that these blades are desirable, which forces the prices up, and so on. There's a word or term for this in economics, but I'm not sure what it is.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

It is mostly just supply and demand.

If you search for straight razor on E-bay at any given time, you're gonna get about 900 legitimate auctions that aren't zeepk and stuff. 5 of those might be over 1" wide blades.

Now, some will argue that big blades "Aren't rare" and they can "find them just about anywhere.."

Well, that may be true, and I have no doubt you could find one somewhere if you really went looking...but for every one 8/8" + blade you run across at flea markets, antique shops, etc... you'll run across about 20 or more 7/8 or less blades.