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    I now have three in my regular rotation which include several W&Bs, Wostys and a Boker. GDs, properly honed, rock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShawnWmDavis View Post
    hard to tell if there is any sarcasm in this thread esp at the beginning

    i know some are not shave ready but what the consensus?
    As far as I can tell you can't expect any of the GD's from mr.parko to be honed, and shave ready, but if you get one from Ruprazor, or Mysteryrazor.com you could get one pre-honed.

    My GD's shave as well as my vintage blades, and my newer Dovo. While not as good to look at the shave is very nice and smooth. Great razors at an unbeatable price.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dancraig View Post
    I suppose they are called "Mystery Razor" because there are no identifying markings on them. The 200s that come direct from Hong Kong have the blade etch and stamp on the tang. I don't see any of that on the picture at Mystery Razor. Perhaps they got a better price by ordering some unbranded.

    Maybe jerryjtr can confirm.

    thats an ebay sellers website they are in fact gold dollars in his and their box

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    I actually met the mystery razor guy at a swap meet and he saw i was eyeing the antique straights and gave me his card, and now that everyone is getting razors from him i need to hit him up for some gold dollars especially since he can hone pretty good too, from what i hear, anyone know about his other stuff if its good, silver tip brush for 16 bucks and strop for 11?

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    i doubt its real silver tip badger hair ive seen em on ebay for 9-10 as well and the reviews arent great but what do you expect for 10 bucks when the real ones list for over 75

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    Quote Originally Posted by dancraig View Post
    I suppose they are called "Mystery Razor" because there are no identifying markings on them. The 200s that come direct from Hong Kong have the blade etch and stamp on the tang. I don't see any of that on the picture at Mystery Razor. Perhaps they got a better price by ordering some unbranded.

    Maybe jerryjtr can confirm.
    I certainly can't say anything about whether or not there was a better price involved, but my Mysteryrazor/GD200 has no markings on it at all. Time will tell if it really is stainless. I'm not missing the blade etch. The one on my 208 is a bit off kilter, and I would imagine that if the 200 had one it might be incomplete, or slanted, or otherwise imperfect. Better to just leave it off. A tang stamp would be nice though just to have some mark to establish what it is. I'm obviously not too picky about these things or I wouldn't be so pleased with my $15 chinese razors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShawnWmDavis View Post
    hard to tell if there is any sarcasm in this thread esp at the beginning

    i know some are not shave ready but what the consensus?

    When they come fresh from the factory the edge is 95% of the time a bit wavy/mishapen at the heel. I have never had one that I would even consider trying to shave with out of the box (but perhaps that's just my OCD about what is "shave ready" to me).

    Once they are honed up, they can in fact be as good a shaver as almost any other razor out there.

    Take it for what it's worth, as I am not an unbiased opinion on the subject, but I have had the opportunity to see, handle, hone, modifify, re-scale, etc, etc, many of these beasts. They are not "joke" razors. They certainly are quirky though!

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    does one honing is engough of a GD 200 for a year?

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    Here is another Link :

    http://ruprazor.com/

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    rup charge a lot.

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