Originally Posted by
WW243
Can I be blunt?
I'm going to suggest that a new vendor, covert or not, might enter a special thread called, let's say, The Critical View. It would be understood that the maker would be open to discussions about his work and that the only real goal was to advance the craft of razor making. You couldn't get away with: 'here's my new work, it's great, isn't it? Shut-up.
Am I prejudiced? Yep. I think that the finest examples of the custom razor are those which combine the aesthetics of the past with the metallurgical and engineering advances of the present.