Thread: My Definition of a Custom Razor

Originally Posted by guitstik

I was not meaning to infer that "hand made" and "custom" were mutually exclusive terms. Take the term hand made. Those that make shaving soap by hand are making "custom soap" because no two batches will ever be alike and there is a specific market for those types of soaps, people like me who do not like the mass produced, chemically induced crud from a can. Mike, those leather strops, they don't have to advertise them as custom because that would just be redundant, it is simply implied. Both hand made and custom infer a quality to what ever they are attached to that is why so many people get upset when that "custom", "hand made" razor they bought has what they see as a flaw, such as not closing straight in the scales.

Originally Posted by guitstik

I still contend that "custom" is anything that falls outside of the purview of the mass produced factory razor. A "hand made" razor or a "custom" razor are one and the same.

I can only go by what you say