Thread: If you were going to make a production razor...

Originally Posted by MattCB

Let me see if I can tease out some more opinions The experienced makers are pretty much saying it's possible but.... (insert quite a few large issues you have to deal with).

Would it make a difference if the price point was higher? Say $160 - $180, maybe $220 - $240? I'm still curious in regards to a production IMHO once you get to $200+ it becomes a more viable option but then there's still the important part... customers

At $200-250 I think if becomes more do able.

Originally Posted by MattCB

I took a look at the video again. If you look at the bin being used to catch the razor blanks for the second press operation (where the excess is removed) you can see a few hundred in the bin. If you look at the rest of the video, they have to be turning out at least a few hundred per day. Just to pay the wages of the workers, utilities and the rest would require around that many.

I'm 99% sure that part of the video is not Dovo, it's the drop forge that supplies all the German manufactures

Originally Posted by RobinK

No offense, but I doubt that anyone but a hardcore patriot would buy your razors stateside, let alone in Europe. know quite a few Hart razors, and they are simply not as good as a Solingen razor that costs the same or less.

I disagree, if a US company decided to jump in and product hollow ground razors (not 1/4 like Hart) I think they would pull buyer away for the German companies.
Right now the thing they (EU brands) have in their favor is true hollows grind razors and price.. If another company can produce the same, at high quality, I don't think it would matter where it was made.

Originally Posted by RobinK

Actually, more. But may I gently draw everyone's attention to the CNC robots used to produce the bottom end line of Dovo razors?

I would like to see the machine making razors.. honestly that's the first I've heard of it.