Thread: I'm back baby!

That's right, i'm back. Who? Exactly! I have registered here some time ago, even made a post or two. But i never pulled that trigger. DE Gives me shaves that are just fine. However, not perfect. Mass produced blades differ, can have microscopic chips/serrations or uneven parts and dull quickly. Not only that, did you know Gillette successful marketed a very affordable cartridge and most razors sold in India are exactly that razor? If developing country's will use these razors prices will go up of blades and factories will close. Higher prices will cause a big part of the remaining DE shavers to jump ship to a cartridge, causing a snowball effect. We're not nearly there, and i think there will be surviving factories. But, in a time where there are more artisan soaps then ever, many great ones even, this both saddens and frightens me. Not even a week later after browsing on cartridges in developing countries and classical street shaves in India, i keep bumping into straight razor threads, articles. Somehow something restless was born. Even if i don't switch to a straight, i must own one razor and kit, i could not go back to cartridges. But i think it will be the DE that will be the emergency and travel shaver. Larry offers a deal which keeps everything under $100 dollars, about my monthly wet shaving budget usually. I hope in the future more people will offer deals like him. So, i'm back. I will browse more often here now probably, and post. Still, all the other fora remain interesting, for all the nice soaps, creams, brushes and balms. And all the fine gentlemen.

Have a great shave, and a great day.




(*morning cold water shave, Fatip open comb, Muhle Silvertip Fiber brush, Top Secret Shaving Cream, 444 Balm)

Welcome back! Interesting Post! It will be interesting to see how the market changes in the future... I think it will continue to work toward more simplicity with Wet Shaving steadily increasing in interest. Not long ago someone posted the new Gillette/Dyson Hybrid Ball-Swivel Multi-Blade Cartridge System was already on clearance. :-) Plus, places like Dollar Shave Club and Dorco are offering Carts/Handles at just insanely low prices. Keeping the pressure up! Though, I imagine I'll be eating a dose or two of crow if, in the distant future, Gillette partners with a great maker and starts putting out quality SR's!!!

Shawn
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There will always be a new and more modern way of shaving products for the masses. I will stick with my 50-200yr old straight razors that still produce a better and more enjoyable shaving experience.
Welcome Back ElaMenthol to the old ways that get the job done better.

Colin

Originally Posted by Prahston

Welcome back! Interesting Post! It will be interesting to see how the market changes in the future... I think it will continue to work toward more simplicity with Wet Shaving steadily increasing in interest. Not long ago someone posted the new Gillette/Dyson Hybrid Ball-Swivel Multi-Blade Cartridge System was already on clearance. :-) Plus, places like Dollar Shave Club and Dorco are offering Carts/Handles at just insanely low prices. Keeping the pressure up! Though, I imagine I'll be eating a dose or two of crow if, in the distant future, Gillette partners with a great maker and starts putting out quality SR's!!!

Shawn
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Thank you. The handle on sale is doesn't mean anything probably, only the cartridges. Often they even give away handles. Plus, never forget that the modern West is maybe one third of the world's market, probably less. A lot of countries are developing, not just China and India. I agree that the economy has chipped away a bit of Gillette's stranglehold of the West, but even then they are the dominate factor. But i also don't disagree per se, more alternatives rise, and for a long time they will making them. And even if they don't, Shavette-like blades will keep being made since that is a professional market. It's a tool even in the West is widely used in salons and barbershops. Gillette straights? Now that would be something. But since a lot of men here never have hear of a Shavette, Gillette bringing out it's own version with shock absorbers and build in GPS, patented it all the way to hell and presenting it as new would not even surprise me that much lol.

Originally Posted by TrilliumLT

There will always be a new and more modern way of shaving products for the masses. I will stick with my 50-200yr old straight razors that still produce a better and more enjoyable shaving experience.
Welcome Back ElaMenthol to the old ways that get the job done better.

Colin

Thanks, i hope i will soon be able to say the same.