Thread: Most Expensive?

Originally Posted by Steve56

Kind of like Filly 14s, they're not hard to find but they are hard to find cheap.

Cheers, Steve

Hype + steady supply. They are nice razors and all, but the market price is too much for me, exactly because they aren't even that uncommon.

My most expensive razor was around €150 - a great gift from some good friends - but I would hesitate to pay anything over €100 for a used razor. New a bit more, but nothing extravagant.

It's what you want to spend your money on; some people have to have a top-of-the-line Marantz, but I'm perfectly happy with my Onkyo, for example.

Best regards,
Pieter

Originally Posted by Pithor

Hype + steady supply. They are nice razors and all, but the market price is too much for me, exactly because they aren't even that uncommon.

As always, Pieter makes an excellent point that applies to many of the more expensive razors.

I do admit that for a while I fell for the hype surrounding a southern European razor maker.
One razor that I bought new was never fit for the job, the remaining few are at best average razors and are rarely used. They were/are the most expensive in my collection.

Two weeks ago, I shaved throughout the week with the remaining few for the first time after about a year and found them as disappointing as before. So back in the cabinett they go and “Ciao, see you next year”.
I must have been under the “emperor’s new clothes effect” then, but took that expensive lesson to heart.

By comparison, the first 5/8 Aust that I bought new for around $100 and that had to bear the brunt of my then novice shaving, stropping, and honing mistakes is still an exquisite shaver.
Incidentally, I just used it this morning and marvelled how such a humble razor can give such an outstanding shave.
I have also three Mühle M3 branded 5/8 razors that were made in Solingen and that sold for about $65 new.
If someone interested in straight shaving needs a razor for a while I usually lend him one of those. And despite the abuse of inexperienced hands all three are still going strong.

I do admit, I do get a kick when something humble and inexpensive turns out to be excellent; punching way above it’s weight, even though holding a much more expensive “piece of art” razor can be a joy too - but a joy that foremost has to give me good shaves.

Hence, if someone looks at a razor primarily as a shaving tool and only secondary as an aesthetic object, like I do, he will be reluctant to part with large sums of money for a tool that is not even that good.




B.

Not my purchase, but i have just honed a brand new Dovo Mammut (mammoth scaled) razor, ready for shave testing in the morning these go for $1500-1900AUD here in Aus and upfront I think it is too heavy in the scales, the washers are bolt types and the thrust washers are at least 1mm thick each, the balance point when flat is over the tail, but it is the 1st new Dovo I have honed to date that actually sits flat on the homes
Also did a new Dovo Black this arvo that is distorted and sits as usual about 0.5mm off at one end
So maybe the blades are better finished also
But still well outside my pay grade