Thread: Dubl Duck Shrimp? Who knew?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Don't forget the elusive napoleon.

I don't suppose you would be willing to grace us with a picture of this fantastic specimen?

I'm guessing it looks a lot like the Dwarf and Shrimp.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I'm guessing it looks a lot like the Dwarf and Shrimp.

Let's not forget the Puma Ducks. I won't even mention the C-Mon/Filly.

nice pumi ducki, Jimmy!

I don't have a Napoleon

As a matter of fact I've never even seen one.

The Puma Duck is a different case. It's really not a DD. DD acted as retailer for a number of other companies (especially in the early days) and the Puma Ducks were actually Puma's where DD was the retailer and so you have the DD or Bresnick logo on them the same as with many other razors where the retailer has his name on it and it has other markings relating to the actual maker. Maybe it's a matter of degree, I don't know since we don't know who made the DDs but the actual DDs don't have manufacturers names on them. All the ones that do are a different case.

I know we've discussed this before and we keep coming up with strange explanations for the Puma Ducks and the French Ducks and some others but it's really as simple as them being a retailer. I guess the same as later on when they had some sort of agreement with Beau Brummel.

I suspect that Puma made the dubl duck bresduck and pearlducks. I may be mistaken. It is just a gut feeling. I have four Puma/bresnick razors and looking at my other bres and pearl ducks I think Puma made them with whatever brand the importer wanted on them.

That would explain this. I have not had it in my hand yet but soon. I got it because it looked to be an 8 ball and I am from Mich. Oh and it's got Ducks.

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"and so you have the DD or Bresnick logo on them the same as with many other razors where the retailer has his name on it and it has other markings relating to the actual maker. Maybe it's a matter of degree, I don't know since we don't know who made the DDs but the actual DDs don't have manufacturers names on them. All the ones that do are a different case. "

Question..is it the scales that make one razor diff. From another if it's 1 company making them?...DD wonderedge vs DD satinedge..scales differ but blade quality is the same?

Pcdad

Originally Posted by pcdad

Question..is it the scales that make one razor diff. From another if it's 1 company making them?...DD wonderedge vs DD satinedge..scales differ but blade quality is the same?

Pcdad

Huge area of contention there

Some people say "No there is no difference"

Most people that have honed and shaved many different ones say "Yes there are very obvious differences"

For sure the temper on the WonderEdge was different.
There are obvious grind differences
The razors came from, different eras, and proved from different companies so honestly to say they were all the same is a bit of a stretch.. Even if they wanted to make them the same it would have been near impossible to do, just by the availability of large quantities of the same steel supply...

Some of the razors were advertised (keep in mind that truth in advertising laws really did not exist then) as Swedish steel others were not, basically I just don't see them being all the same, there is to much evidence to the contrary...

But like many other things in this hobby, you just don't know for sure