Thread: My Definition of a Custom Razor

I just use the dictionary definition - custom = made to order.

From that point of view, I suppose for example if Dovo offered to make me a razor to my specs (and not just pick pre-determined options), then there's no reason I'd view that Dovo as not being a custom razor.

If someone sold me a Joe Chandler or an Alex Jacques, and that razor was made to the previous owner's specifications, it is a custom razor.

James.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

TA Ta's????????????????

What's that you said about a 180 IQ rating, Pixel...?

Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003

Does the $1000 price tag and all really shave closer?

I haven't had the pleasure of shaving with a custom razor so I can't tell you if it shaves closer, but I think there is more to the custom razors than just function (although function could be part of it). The ones I've looked at in photographs, some of them are so artistically beautiful as to easily qualify as an art object.

Art isn't all together rational. It is an emotional response. I love leather bound books, airplanes, fine tools, and a few other things which have elements of both form and function crossing into art. My leather bound books don't actually work better than an e-book; especially when traveling. Yet there is a tactile response and emotional attachment to finely bound leather books the e-book reader just doesn't produce for me.

I haven't had the pleasure yet, but I can see a finely executed custom razor feeling better and with the right performance features even shaving a bit better for a particular individual. I'd love to try a shorty straight razor for my sideways beard on my neck. I am making the full size one work, but I bet having two matching razors, a shorty rendition of one and identical of the other would be cool for me. I don't know I'd have to try it first.

Then of course there is the simple appreciation of using something of great artistic beauty on a daily basis. YMMV of course...

Best,

Ed

Originally Posted by Gobbo

... from Urban Dictionary, I offer this:
You can't polish a turd, but you can spray paint it gold, and call it custom.

You can roll it in glitter too...

Regards,
Neil

Gobbo,

The gentlemen participating in this thread have maintained a tone of civility and good taste. Please remember that.

Originally Posted by Obie

Gobbo,

The gentlemen participating in this thread have maintained a tone of civility and good taste. Please remember that.

Please accept my apologies I did not intend to cause any offense. I will delete my post.

This is hitting the outer edge of minutia.... and I am eating it up.

We can all look up the definition of "custom" in the dictionary and apply a strict interpretation of that but does that fit the current discussion? it reminds me of when I was working and the Govt had this application which folks kept filling out incorrectly in huge numbers. The Agency decided people were just stupid. Most of us thought it meant there was something bad about the form which needed changing.

That's why I brought up the notion of "custom class" razor. Kind of a half step below true custom but basically most of the attributes of a true custom.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

We can all look up the definition of "custom" in the dictionary and apply a strict interpretation of that but does that fit the current discussion? it reminds me of when I was working and the Govt had this application which folks kept filling out incorrectly in huge numbers. The Agency decided people were just stupid. Most of us thought it meant there was something bad about the form which needed changing.

That's why I brought up the notion of "custom class" razor. Kind of a half step below true custom but basically most of the attributes of a true custom.

Perhaps 'halfcust' would have been more apt then people could draw all sorts of conclusions from 'half crust' (ie half-baked) to half-cussed (for example when mocked by others for paying too much).

In the same vein, seeing as these are made by an artisan I offer 'custisanal' - don't go using that yourselves, it's mine, I thought of it first...

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

In the same vein, seeing as these are made by an artisan I offer 'custisanal' - don't go using that yourselves, it's mine, I thought of it first...

Regards,
Neil

believe me when I say to you Neil, that one is all yours...

James.