Thread: New Razor Meisturwerk Machinen

snorro,
I respect your willingness to give that vendor the benefit of the doubt. But I think that you're missing a couple of very important facts:

• here you have the benefit of a lot of straight razor experience (not including myself), and it's almost unanimously taken the position that there are MAJOR issues with your razor, and that the vendor is questionable at best.
• no one here has a vested interest in convincing you that your razor is bad...or good. In my experience, that should count for something!

You came here soliciting advice, and it's too bad that you aren't pleased with the advice that's been given. Ultimately, you'll get to choose whether you'll accept that advice. If there's one thing that I've learned about this forum, it's thateveryone here will be wishing you their best, regardless of vwhat you choose.

Good luck! And I hope that we'll be seeing you around.

Originally Posted by Dzanda

snorro,
I respect your willingness to give that vendor the benefit of the doubt. But I think that you're missing a couple of very important facts:

• here you have the benefit of a lot of straight razor experience (not including myself), and it's almost unanimously taken the position that there are MAJOR issues with your razor, and that the vendor is questionable at best.
• no one here has a vested interest in convincing you that your razor is bad...or good. In my experience, that should count for something!

You came here soliciting advice, and it's too bad that you aren't pleased with the advice that's been given. Ultimately, you'll get to choose whether you'll accept that advice. If there's one thing that I've learned about this forum, it's thateveryone here will be wishing you their best, regardless of vwhat you choose.

Good luck! And I hope that we'll be seeing you around.

I will second that in spades. Run do not walk away from those razors. Get a full refund and buy a razor from a known reputable maker.

Bob

@Dzanda
I guess you are right, why pay for a flawed product.
I was just looking for a last excuse to keep it. I find it annoying and a inconvenience to hassle about a refund.

I have now asked for a full refund, thank you all for your help.

One 'red flag', aside from the poor craftsmanship, is a track record on internet forums. Are there posts on shaving forums where members say this razor honed up and shaved great ? There are a lot of razor like cutting implements being made nowadays that are not really suitable for shaving. This looks like one of those.

You have made a good decision, one of the most informed and knowledgable people with razors has said run. Nuff said , now you have a fellow Norwegian who can help you and he's also on top of what is a razor, Heck the description of the razor told you it wasn't steel that is worthy of holding an edge, for a lot less than the money you spent you can have a nice vintage razor that shaves. So good for you ,, I hope that this disreputable company does indeed give you your money back and you get to shaving like this soon. Tc

Some good responses by some very knowledgable people here. There is no way that you could have gotten a quality Damascus steel straight razor for $150, that to me is already a red flag.

As already recommended, a refund is your best bet. Then, purchase a decent quality vintage razor that is shave ready. If you buy it from this or other quality forums like Badger and Blade your chances of getting a quality straight for a decent price that is shave ready is virtually guaranteed.

The advice you can get here and the aforementioned site would be priceless.

Best of luck to you.

Ahah...
10minutes after I sent the complaint I got a email reply with the return address.

And all this talking about razors, my mother dusted of an old razor probably was my fathers. It is pretty worn.
There is three crowns and underneath it says Lindner&Co with some more text underneath which is hard to read.
Maybe this can be used.

Thanks again.