Thread: Evidence of Filarmonica Manufactured in Solingen?????

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Here is a blurb from the Wikipedia (not ours) on this ;

Thiers Issard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The original source for this is the marketing materials of the (exclusive at the time) distributor of TI. Some of it is true, but there is a very heavy slant towards drumming up sales. Unfortunately the page maintainer is not interested in removing the sales spin and using unbiased sources or at least sources without conflict of interest - when I asked him he made that clear even when I pointed out that the vendor has switched their claims 180 degrees with changes in inventory, always aligning their 'helpful information' to drive their sales.

Lead bath was used in the Sheffield factories for decades before TI existed with all of the dire consequences for the workers. Obviously nowadays fine razors can be manufactured without using the molten lead as medium, and I personally consider it not a point of pride but rather one of backwardness.
It's quite likely that the lead vapors are much better contained than they were 100 years ago and they don't maim and kill and their workers at the same rates as in the days of old, but having to get a special exemption from the health regulations is not a good sign, particularly when their competitors don't and still manage to produce great razors and at lower cost.