Thread: Economics

Originally Posted by Knife

Its seems to me I need to buy one razor and that should last me my entire life.

Fine, here's your ten characters

Originally Posted by JohnJ

Oh be nice to the man there was an awful lot of people "in the day" who had one razor, one strop and that's about all. The absolute minimum to do this really is quite modest, it's all the other things that push the price up. Not that most of us seem to mind.

If by "all the other things", you are referring to our racoon-like impulse to hoard shiny things, I agree with you 100%

Yeah, that'd be the one

Originally Posted by JohnJ

If by "all the other things", you are referring to our racoon-like impulse to hoard shiny things, I agree with you 100%

mmm shiny

aah, I mean, I have no idea what your talking about

I think if we transposed the word "racoon" for "magpie" it should translate for us Aussies.

I got this off of Amazon, 11.99

Professional Quality Straight Razor 210582WD by General Edge

Its got a straight spine, should I hone it and try shaving with it?

Originally Posted by Knife

I got this off of Amazon, 11.99

Professional Quality Straight Razor 210582WD by General Edge

Its got a straight spine, should I hone it and try shaving with it?

You can if you want, but I wouldn't, a razor that cheap almost certainly comes from China or Pakistan and there's usually a reason for their cheapness (ie they almost always only look like a razor, they don't behave like one). Why don't you read some of the Stickies at the top of the Beginners page or take the other advice given in the thread? You're over 30 bucks to the bad so far.

If you are really there for the economics and the economics only, I'd suggest a double edge. Sure, the blade are disposable but they are in the range of 1/10-1/20th the cost of modern cartridge. For the price of strop/ hone/ paste you can get quite a few year of blade that you know are well sharpened.

If you like the idea of straight razor, you probably need to accept it cost a bit more. There's a LOT of thing to learn at the same time and I believe it's worth to start with a safe-bet sandbox where the only unknown is your shave technique. Then try to master stropping before adding honing in the equation.

If you want to challenge statistic and find the perle-rare of cheap razor, that's a valid hobby per se. However I'd suggest you to get a cheap razor from the classified or there Categories . It may not be the most beautifull thing in the world but it's 30$ for the knowledge of what does a shave ready edge feel/look like

I just want to let you guys know I'm not planing on just getting the bear minimum. I'm just asking the question so that if it ends up I don't like it as a hobby, will it still be a way I can save money doing. I don't want to get a double blade because it is still about the fun factor for me. I'm going to get the razor strop kit at Whipped dog, which is shave ready and get a hone later once I've determined I like it, it's only 40, so what the hell. I'll let that function as my "compare" blade later on when I get a real nice razor, once I know a little more and better decide on what I want. My latest query is this hollow, half, fraction consideration, but I'll learn that later.

Now having said that, now that you know I'm in the middle between a person who wants the cheapest setup ever and one who wants all the frills (closer to the cheap side though, just starting) what is up with these five hundred dollar razors? My God, what could warrent that price tag? And why have more than five. I mean if your collecting them that's fine, but I've seen roll up bags that fit like seven it seemed and that's not the type of thing you would keep a collectable. So if it's not a collectable, is someone realy standing over a rolled out selection of razor and thinking which one do I want to shave with today? Or is there a reason for having that many to choose from?