Thread: FOR BEGINNERS: Some Thoughts on Buying Razors.

DLB,

You must have been riding in my back pocket for the last 4 Months. You have pretty much described me to a tee!

I think it is a natural progression of RAD to go thru the very things you so eloquently described. After buying a bunch of junk off various locations, e-bay included, from China, India, Pakistan, all the cheap stuff. Cheap everything, strops, brushes, etc.. Then I got a little smarter and got a King Cutter from SRD and was instantly hooked on the shave.

Then once I joined in here and discovered you could buy old ones, fix them up and use them, I went totally nuts for a while. At first, once I discovered you could even do such a thing, I bought everything in sight. But I tend to do that anyway as part of my compulsive/obsessive behaviors. I payed too much on e-bay I'm sure, but they were worth it to me then. I tend to throw myself head first into things and learn a bunch of lessons the hard way. Eventually I learned that there is 'always another razor', and they began to have less value to me. My wife is a saint for putting up with me. Now I have a good sense of exactly what it should be worth based on condition and make. Took me 4 months to get here though, and several hundreds of dollars.

If I had read something like what you wrote early on, it might have saved me a lot of money!! LOL

Very, very well thought out and presented. I would swear you've written articles before. Excellent!! You can tell it really made me reflect on things. Very thought provoking. If we could only get the people who can really benefit from this to read it.

Thank you DLB.

M