Thread: Mastro Livi vs. Robert Williams?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I haven't seen a Williams razor in the flesh but I do have a livi and the workmanship is outstanding and there is plenty of it. You have to remember that when you start talking about custom type razors you are paying for the name to a great extent. maybe in 10 years a Williams Razor will command as much or more than a Livi. Look at the Zowada razors. There doesn't appear to be alot of workmanship in those to command the prices they go for but he has the name.

If you just concerned with a great shaving razor there is no need to even consider razors like these.

I understand you completely!

I suffer from the inability to determine the difference from what I need and what I want. When I was a young ladd, my father used to say to me, "son, your intelligent, but you not very G_d D__ned Smart!"

(and he was right)

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

I don't know if you are joking or not but I am perfecting the horn working process right now and expect to be offering scale blanks next month and finished scales in maybe 2 or 3 months.

Those were my first scales ever and I was a little embarrassed to post that pic since they aren't quite up to my standards.
I need to find a better way to produce the inside radius.

I hope to produce finished blades within the next year.

My goal in life is to have Livi as my cabana boy.

"NEXT TIME I WANT MORE PINA IN MY PINA COLADA !!!! "


just kidding....glad you liked them

Nope, wasn't kidding!
Lets see if you can handle steel as well as you handle horn!

I gotta say that all of us are really spoiled rotten!
We are able to chose from thousands of vintage razors each year on Ebay, look over beautiful offerings of NOS razors and now we have several brand new makers of high quality straight razors that all use steel of a quality that was never available to our grandfathers!

We are so lucky! Buy at least one of each!

Originally Posted by randydance062449

I gotta say that all of us are really spoiled rotten!
We are able to chose from thousands of vintage razors each year on Ebay, look over beautiful offerings of NOS razors and now we have several brand new makers of high quality straight razors that all use steel of a quality that was never available to our grandfathers!

We are so lucky! Buy at least one of each!

Yea!!!!!!! That's what I really wanted to hear. Good advice! Thanks -

Originally Posted by zepplin

Yea!!!!!!! That's what I really wanted to hear. Good advice! Thanks -

And you didn't listen to me when I offered the same advice

Robert Williams. No doubts about it.

No disrespect to Tim Zowada and Mastro Livi, but if I am going to buy a high end hand forged razor, I'd rather pay Robert X amount of money for something that is precisely what I want to have, rather than paying at least 2*X for a standard Zowada or Livi razor.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Robert Williams. No doubts about it.

No disrespect to Tim Zowada and Mastro Livi, but if I am going to buy a high end hand forged razor, I'd rather pay Robert X amount of money for something that is precisely what I want to have, rather than paying at least 2*X for a standard Zowada or Livi razor.

* I agree! After reading the posts and thinking about it, the best bang-fer-the-buck has got to go to Mr. Williams. As for a Livi, I'll just keep buyin' those lottery tickets -

Thank you all. This was a very nice thing to see. I do try to make sure you all get the best you can for a really good price. And if you want it, I try my level best to get you exactly what you want. First and foremost, my goal is to give you the very best shaving blade in the world and finish it off so it looks as good as it shaves. Thank you all for your support. I'm very flattered.

My RW shaves better than any other razor I have tried.

It shaves so well that I feel I can actually challenge people who say that shaving capabilities for customs are comparable to other razors and that cheaper razors can shave as well as the most expensive ones. To me - the difference is big and easy to appreciate. (For the record - I had to spend a little time to fine-tune it - but certainly not a long time, as some people had reported)

Cheers
Ivo

My advice is to buy two of each. Of course from a collecting standpoint, no offense, Maestro Livi is not exactly young anymore (may he live another 50 years),so buying a razor or two of his may be a wise investment.
But if shaving is what you want, the shave quality the RW is wonderful, it is my 4th favorite razor, the others beat it only on sentimentality. the first two are a 6/8 spike Boker that was my grandfather's and a 6/8 Satinwedge that my father gave me when i started shaving, the third is an olive wood 7/8 Maestro Livi, the first costly razor i purchased.