Thread: how much did you pay for your favorite razor?

I went for under a hundred. Got most of my ducks for that and put a lot of time into them. 7 day Satinedge set is now 10 days long :<0)

My favorite razor was given to me by a friend and you can't put a price on that.

My sentimental favorite is an heirloom (therefore $0) Shumate that belonged to my grandfather, remains an excellent, comfortable shaver, and is my current benchmark, since it is just back from a pro-honing.
My favorite "go-to" is a $16.13 Torrey; frankly I could put the others on display and just shave with this one from now on.
My favorite chest-thumper is a $45 Joseph Elliot--absolutely beautiful glider.
My most-used favorite is a DOVO Facharbeit purchased new in Solingen in 1971 for DM??, which was the only razor I used for many years.
My favorite "biter" (and I'm stretching here) is another heirloom; it is a badly stained and pitted Beauty Rite and it has the power to give me focus and block out all distractions on pain of...well, you get it.
They're all my favorites!

I was yearning for a Heljestrand and coughed up $200 for a Royal Kindal. A mistake. Not long after, I got an MK 33 for less. I tried to tell myself that the Royal Kindal, with MK on the scales but not on the tang, would be the same thing, just exported to France. Nope. Different animal. Less steel.

Joe

Half of what they go for.

Originally Posted by mainaman

Half of what they go for.

Yup. I was a sucker. Learning has been costly in a number of ways.

Joe

Originally Posted by carrolljc

Learning has been costly in a number of ways.

But learning better, getting a hang of things, is fun in itself. And a few bad buys are unpleasant enough to serve as an effective form of negative reinforcement.

In All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel about WW I, the first-person narrator remarks that the new recruits die at a much greater rate than the old hands. They don't know simple, basic rules about how to act. For instance, they don't know that poison gas collects in the bottom of shell holes, so that once gas is in the air, one is safer above ground level than below.

That principle is generalizable across many domains. It's certainly true of shaving and razors. Novices makes many mistakes. And fortunately, shaving is generally not life-threatening. Most people would have to make a point of going for an artery in the neck. Not likely to happen by accident. Making a bad buy is deeply unpleasant, but not terminal.

Joe

Originally Posted by carrolljc

Making a bad buy is deeply unpleasant, but not terminal.

But it hurts longer!

Originally Posted by Splashone

But it hurts longer!

My bad buys do indeed keep on hurting. But then, the good buys keep on feeling good.

Joe

Originally Posted by carrolljc

Yup. I was a sucker. Learning has been costly in a number of ways.

Joe

I think what Stefan was saying was those razors can go for more than what you paid. If you have C.V.H. MK No. 33's in good shape for less than $200, I'll take ten please.