Something to think about as well is how much of a surcharge would you pay for a factory honed razor? Say it costs half of what a honemeister charges at the factory to pay for the wages and benefits and other overhead of the honing process, so call it $10. They want to turn a profit on this added operation so they sell it for $20 more, then the distributer and retailers increase that as well, so you are paying say $60 to have it factory honed.

And these costs might well be optimistic as I am not sure that honemeisters charge rates that correspond to the true value of their time and activity.

Add to that manufacturers are mostly European and as such have a strong reluctance to hire people as they can not downsize easily when demand flags off.

This could well drive prices for mass produced razors up to level of hand work.