Thread: Discommon

I will keep my scales out of ivory, horn, Tortoise, and bone, and they can keep their titanium, Buck Rogers razor no thanks....

I wonder what the likelihood of cutting part of your finger off by it accidentally slipping through the hole in the scales is?

Though this would explain why it was on cigar afficionado - it is a very expensive cigar cutter.

$1200.00 buys you 1.2k of ugly .

Originally Posted by Wirm

$1200.00 buys you 1.2k of ugly .

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me it is a $20 razor with $1,980 of bragging rights....

I'm kinda intrigued by other things on this company's website, but the razors - not so much. Aesthetically, the "handles" look too much like some frat guys bicep tribal tattoo circa 2004.

I'm especially amused by the idea of the scales being textured so the razor doesn't slip while your hands are wet.

It's great when designers think so far outside the box they ignore actual use-case scenarios.

This is the elephant as described by blind men.

Or what happens when physicists think they understand biology (or vice-versa!).

Sometimes interdisciplinary thinking just produces train wrecks.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

I'm especially amused by the idea of the scales being textured so the razor doesn't slip while your hands are wet.

It's great when designers think so far outside the box they ignore actual use-case scenarios.

This is the elephant as described by blind men.

Or what happens when physicists think they understand biology (or vice-versa!).

Sometimes interdisciplinary thinking just produces train wrecks.

I plan on everything I use while shaving on getting wet. A little soap and water on my scales helps keep them clean! I played with some more heavily textured scales this last weekend and the biggest problem I can see with then is keeping them clean. A smooth scale you can just wipe off and your done!

Originally Posted by 32t

I plan on everything I use while shaving on getting wet. A little soap and water on my scales helps keep them clean! I played with some more heavily textured scales this last weekend and the biggest problem I can see with then is keeping them clean. A smooth scale you can just wipe off and your done!

The point is that it's like a new computer company installing the screens backwards on a laptop. They know there's supposed to be a screen there, but lack the basic understanding of its purpose to know what to do with it.

They made the most basic of mistakes. They naively attempted to improve upon a technology without having any understanding of that technology.

Originally Posted by Utopian

They made the most basic of mistakes. They naively attempted to improve upon a technology without having any understanding of that technology.

Not only that but it is pretty hard to improve on something that has evolved over the course of 300 years give or take. A straight razor is pretty much a mature technology.

Bob