Thread: Rapid prototype potential for custom razors

Originally Posted by 10Pups

The only flaw in your plan if you accomplish this feat is the mentality. It's not just the fact that you have to get the same properties as the old steel into your new object. It's also a matter of being collectable. I would guess a majority of straight users also enjoy the fact that they are shaving with a tool that has stood the test of time for generations. New razors are cool but lets have a show of hands for how many use a new blade :<0) Another thing,,when you say customs you should understand the meaning there. Each one is different. That's a lot of digits and pixels. Good luck though on a proto type.

True. So true.
I agree entirely. I have made my own razors by hand. Has a sort of traditional (Japanese) master smith reverence to it.
In terms of the average Joe designing his own personalised razor including makers mark. I liken this to the advent of digital photography.
Does take the skill and dare I say charm out of the process. Progress if it happens can not be stopped??
Someone will do it at some point in time. I think that there is room for both approaches.
Can you tell the difference between a "real" and a synthetic diamond?

Nope I am no diamond expert. Can't tell the difference between GMO food and regular either except for the blan taste and can't forget the fact that it is covered in pesticides. :<0)
But yeah there maybe room for both, I am just thinking you will have to create your own market. This is totally doable if not now , in the future. Just twice as much work as your original plan which was coming up with the product.

A 3d scanner would make custom designs from old razors easy enough.

Ok Guys. Not weighing in on fesibility, as I reckon you have covered it.
just point out that just because you can do something does not mean you should do it.
the main thing is to ensure it is not called hand made.
I guess there is still a skill indoing it the technological way., but no sweat of brow. Kind of like arguments in smelting ones own steel vs forging recycled steel vs forging production steel vs stock removal vs home heat treat vs commercial heat treat, etc.
be interested to see results and compare to a razor made traditionally.

Originally Posted by Adam G.

Ok Guys. Not weighing in on fesibility, as I reckon you have covered it.
just point out that just because you can do something does not mean you should do it.
the main thing is to ensure it is not called hand made.
I guess there is still a skill indoing it the technological way., but no sweat of brow. Kind of like arguments in smelting ones own steel vs forging recycled steel vs forging production steel vs stock removal vs home heat treat vs commercial heat treat, etc.
be interested to see results and compare to a razor made traditionally.

Just because we can doesnt mean we should. GMO foods. Growing pieces and parts in test tubes. Nuclear bombs...... Need we say more. Once Pandora is let out you cant put her back in. Just because you can, we as a community would have to take resposibility for any direction this could spiral down to. Ouch I am going to say this "sometimes the old ways are better" .No one would die from texting and driving if the phone still had a cord coming out of the wall. Just saying

I guess if you want to do full scale production, you could always follow mass production methods of wood chisels.
How its made chisel - YouTube