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    If they do stop ( which I doubt) it would most likely be because there is not much profit in new razors today. You have superior shave selling the low end dovos for around $100 which means the mfg has to sell it to him for $60?? plus shipping it?? Even if a tech can make a razor in two hours which I doubt, that does not make a lot of dinero and that's not considering materials. I owned a business all my life and it does not pencil out
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    I read that they are going to be limiting what they make and not how many the produce.

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    Maybe they can straighten out the warped spines! Last 5 dovos Ive seen 5 for 5 warped!

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    I saw it on Badger and Blade and Facebook from The Superior Shave. Looks like they are cutting back what they produce. Having a hard time getting trained people to do the work I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    No Biggie to me, never used one, would never buy one.
    I'm the same really. Never had one, no plans to buy one. But they do seem to offer a solid way into straight shaving for many beginners (not to mention higher-end models for those with deeper pockets, worse RAD, etc.) so in that sense I'd be sorry to see them stop if it is in fact true.

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    I've owned a good half dozen Dovo"s and honed just as many and they were all great razors. No quality issues for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brucem View Post
    I saw it on Badger and Blade and Facebook from The Superior Shave. Looks like they are cutting back what they produce. Having a hard time getting trained people to do the work I guess.

    Bruce
    Slightly off topic but I have to comment on how I have heard that excuse about trained workers from so many places. Whatever has happened to the idea of an apprenticeship? Working for the same company for 10 years let alone 40. Companies want a cheap, highly trained, disposable workforce, and whine when they can't get it. They need to make a long term investment that they are not willing to make.

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    I still have a few dovos, vintage and high end current production and I'm quite happy with every one of them.

    It seems that this whole misunderstanding started because one of the vendors wanted to speculate in public without relaying the facts he was given - just enough to muddy the waters.

    Apparently there is nothing like stop in production, just quitting their experiment over the last few years of making dozens of different models (even in tiny amounts exclusive to one vendor). Now they're streamlining production and switching back to few models only like it used to be.
    Sadly some of the best ones are going to disappear, but I guess business is business.
    Now that's the only factual information as far as I can tell.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    Do we know any of the above to be factual??
    Yes we do. You don't?

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