Well we all know when you contract with someone to make a razor to your specs or buy a one of a kind razor that's a custom razor. However what inquiring minds want to know is when you put down the big bucks for a made to order razor how important is it to you that the guy who puts his name or initials on the razor actually made the thing either in whole or in part and which part?

From what I understand Tim Zowada is on the end where he does it all from metal fabrication to scale manufacture and Livi is next in that he buys the steel ingots and cuts his own blanks and does everything else from that point. The other guys I don't know but if someone got the blanks ready made and sent them out for grinding and basically did the scales and final honing and some blade decoration would that be ok by you or would you expect the maker to have a certain involvement in the whole process. Or for that matter would the price you pay cause you to expect the maker to have more involvement so say a $300 custom wouldn't need that degree of involvememnt where a $1200 razor would?

Also at the same point does the mere fact that a razor is a unique piece make it a custom or does the concept of custom require a certain level of craftmanship. So if Zeepk starts making custom razors for $75.00 well you know...