Thread: New with questions

Usually what sets one razor apart from another (speaking new ones now) are name recognition, size of razor, ornamentation on razor, hand machining on razor and scale material. Whether it's stainless or carbon or different types of carbon as long as it's quality they will all give a great shave and last longer than you.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Usually what sets one razor apart from another (speaking new ones now) are name recognition, size of razor, ornamentation on razor, hand machining on razor and scale material. Whether it's stainless or carbon or different types of carbon as long as it's quality they will all give a great shave and last longer than you.

cool, thanks. with woodworking tools like planes a lot of the $ goes into precision such as flatness, etc and the rest into the quality of the steel. Based on what you said, it seems that there is a baseline of quality on straight razor blades (from reputable current manufacturers), with some variation I am sure, and then the extra $ goes into non-cutting stuff.