Thread: Does anyone know where to find a cheap Wapi?

Originally Posted by Pathogen

Thank you very much, but I cannot except your kind offer. I sent you a PM regarding how much I appreciate your beneficence. I'm simply looking for a Wapi to practice on, since I know they can hold a sweet edge and are good shavers.

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Thanks everyone.

The news is bad folks ... from what I'm hearing, the supply of NOS Wapienica's is exhausted.

Originally Posted by Chimensch

The news is bad folks ... from what I'm hearing, the supply of NOS Wapienica's is exhausted.

Be of good cheer, Kenrup posted this yesterday. It seems wapis are going back into production, not the stout 1/4 to 1/2 hollow with industrial strength stainless scales we've come to love, but a conventional full hollow roundish point with plastic scales. Kenrup will be selling shave ready wapi IIs for $53 so you will probably be able to get one for 30 bucks or so.

I would have preferred the wapi II to have been a remake of the original, but hey, anybody starting up new straight production should be celebrated!

Originally Posted by shuredgefan

Be of good cheer, Kenrup posted this yesterday. It seems wapis are going back into production, not the stout 1/4 to 1/2 hollow with industrial strength stainless scales we've come to love, but a conventional full hollow roundish point with plastic scales. Kenrup will be selling shave ready wapi IIs for $53 so you will probably be able to get one for 30 bucks or so.

I would have preferred the wapi II to have been a remake of the original, but hey, anybody starting up new straight production should be celebrated!

Bull****! It's a totally different razor. You can call it a Cadillac, but that doesn't make it a car. The "Wapi II" doesn't have any of the things that made me fall in love with the original Wapi, such as being almost a wedge and the steel scales.

Originally Posted by Chimensch

The news is bad folks ... from what I'm hearing, the supply of NOS Wapienica's is exhausted.

where are you hearing this?

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

where are you hearing this?

I wrote to open_razor (who sells Wapis on eBay) asking if he had any and he didn't answer me. Then another member here who sells Wapis told me that he didn't have any more, that he had written to his contact (the same open_razor) and that he didn't respond. Now, we hear that open_razor is marketing a razor under the Wapi name. You can put 2 and 2 together as well as I can.

Originally Posted by Pathogen

I've scoured eBay and there isn't a single one left :[

When in search, list on the classifieds. When I heard they were getting rare, I listed a WTB and I now have one on it's way to me. I was offered more than one, so there are other members who would likely offer one up.

Originally Posted by Chimensch

Bull****! It's a totally different razor. You can call it a Cadillac, but that doesn't make it a car. The "Wapi II" doesn't have any of the things that made me fall in love with the original Wapi, such as being almost a wedge and the steel scales.

Well, it may not have tail fins on it and a huge chrome grill but the new razor is made by the same company and they call it a Wapencia. It's a good razor and it is very different from the original.

I am hearing that there are some stray stashes of the original Wapis popping up but not a steady supply.

Originally Posted by Kenrup

It's a good razor and it is very different from the original.

I'm sure that's true. Some people will see the Wapi II as a solution to their problem, i.e., a good, inexpensive starter razor. For me it doesn't replace the original Wapi.

a few people have given the link for the well honed razor for $45.