Quote Originally Posted by holli4pirating View Post
I've not had a DA or GD, but I honestly think you're probably better off buying vintage. You can get a vintage, shave ready razor for $30 and up, depending on what you're interested in, and you can be certain that you're going to get a quality blade. Take a look on the classifieds.
I agree with you holli4pirating.. If you are not a honer and you buy a Gold Dollar for say $15, you then have to ship it out to a honer. Depending on where you live it could cost up to $15 then you pay $15-20 for the honing and then up to $15 to ship it back. What you have then is a Chinese made, low quality razor that cost you from $40 to $65. How is that cheap? I have only payed over $60 for a razor once or twice. And what I got then was a shave ready razor made by a company with hundreds of years of experience. Most of my other razors I have bought shave ready for $25-35..

And then you have the problem when you possibly would want to sell one or two of the razors. The gold dollar will get you $8-15 tops.. Who would buy a used oned for more when new ones cost $14? And vintage razors? Not only do you have a fantastic razor of undisputable quality. You have a piece of history.. an antique. An item of beauty that was made 70-250 years ago and STILL shaves just as well today. and as a bonus If you look after them the price will only go up, up, up..

Quote Originally Posted by janivar123
the great thing compared to buying wintage is that these are not unie old razors and easely replaceable
wich for me atleast allows me not to worry about damaging something old

vintage razors are to me atleast limited supply even if theres still a lot of them out there and every time one breaks theres one less on the total market

regardless of price id rather experiment with new production than anything old
cause new means theres no problem getting the exact same again exept money
I agree with this too. And it is in my opinion the only reason to get one of these razors. But that is of course a matter of opinion.