Thread: Maestro group buy unofficial poll

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

Any steel from Takeda would work for me

I agree with my Bay Area brother.

I would make the observation that the point style is probably the part I'd be least likely to compromise on. I could live with ATS or Damascus since both are good steels and hold an edge well. And I could compromise on the scale material since that's mostly aesthetics (although at the price this will turn out to be, aesthetics might count more than it would for a lower cost razor). But the point style is a very personal thing... and affects the shaveability of the razor, at least for me. I own various point styles, but I only like one of the styles and that's predominantly what I use in my limited rotation. YMMV

and since you brought it up what would that be? I can use all of them but I hate round points. The rest I like.

Originally Posted by Amyn

I would hope some could explain the differences between the 2 steels ATS or Damscus steel.

The Damascus that the Maestro normally forges (well, certainly the Rose Damascus, not sure about Blue Tonge) is a combination of ATS34 and 440. The lighter colour bands is ATS34, the darker is 440. (My signoff pic below illustrates exactly this.)

Originally Posted by The Topher

and since you brought it up what would that be?

I specifically left that out so the poll results wouldn't be influenced/skewed. I'm sure the early razor manufacturers made all these different points for a reason... their customers preferred them over the others. I'd think everyone could be satisfied if there was a choice between a square point of some type and a round point.

Originally Posted by azjoe

I specifically left that out so the poll results wouldn't be influenced/skewed. I'm sure the early razor manufacturers made all these different points for a reason... their customers preferred them over the others. I'd think everyone could be satisfied if there was a choice between a square point of some type and a round point.

yeah, but then i would want one in each of the options... that could get pricey

If this is to be a group buy where no profit is being made then volumn sales would probably not bring the cost down on these things. I think the aim should be to put as many of these things into the hands of people who normally might never buy one. For many of us if we want a fancy razor with fancy scales at some point we will probably buy what we want anyway. Of course if there is enough response maybe we can have a dual track buy. A basic one and a high dollar version. How about that?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

If this is to be a group buy where no profit is being made then volumn sales would probably not bring the cost down on these things. I think the aim should be to put as many of these things into the hands of people who normally might never buy one. For many of us if we want a fancy razor with fancy scales at some point we will probably buy what we want anyway. Of course if there is enough response maybe we can have a dual track buy. A basic one and a high dollar version. How about that?

yeah but then i would still want both! but should really only buy one...