Quote Originally Posted by robert2286 View Post
I completely agree that lewis and max and all them make exquisite razors... And that Grim claim of being the finest is invalid... But that brings me to another point... Nobody in the US makes an affordable razor... I can buy 2 brand new production sometimes 4 brand new production razors for the price of one made in the US... From companies that have been around for 100 years... I am playing devils avocate here... 99.9 percent sure that i will never buy a grim... But somebody in the US has to start manufacturing an affordable quality blade... Boker, TI,Dovo, RA all have bad ass blades for a third of a price of an american one... It cannot cost 3 times more to make a blade in the states!
Straight razors are really a niche market. Boker, TI, Dovo etc are old factories that have survived because they make a lot of other products besides straight razors. As far as I'm aware, none of the straight razor production in the US survived apart from the high end, hand made, Artisan razors. They are completely different markets and production techniques. Hart is probably the closest you've got to production razor manufacturing in the US. They are in the same price range as the higher end TI's, Bokers, Dovo's etc.