Thread: Is there such thing as a bad "vintage" razor?

I Think all vintage razors are good because if a particular razor was bad you wouldn't keep it for more than 30 years before throwing it in the bin.. The vintage razors we get are the ones that were used for decades and given from father to son and I wouldn't give my son a zeepk... well ok maybe some razors werent used for decades but at least someone took the effort not to throw them away..

Maarten

Remember that in Solingen for instance very few razor makers did it all. Most bought the blanks from one supplier and the scales from another and sent the razors out for this or for that so in the end there were few actual sources for the blanks which is why I think there were so few bad razors. Yea you can get one warped or badly ground or maybe with poor heat treatment but in the end though some makers had a reputation as premium and some maybe not so premium I can't think of any German makers who made bad stuff. I would assume this scenario was the same here in the U.S and in other places.

About the only razors that were consistently made 100% in house were the Japanese Traditional Straights and I'm not even totally sure some of them might have bought blanks also.