Thread: Where do you see the straight razor trend in........?

I recall being surprised at the amount of straight razors available for sale on websites worldwide. Referring to new razors. Since men will always have to shave, assuming the islamists don't succeed in world domination, I think that the future of straight razor shaving is secure.

As for the vintage market, ebay shows a seemingly never ending supply of vintage razors day after day, week after week and year after year. People move on to other interests or they die and collections become available. There will always be a supply and a demand IMO.

As for prices, ir a fellow is after the latest hot item he has to be willing to pay a premium. To some this is worth the price of admission while to others it is not. Thankfully there are plenty of quality shavers out there at reasonable prices and I suspect there always will be. So I see the market and future of straight razor shaving being ongoing for a minority of discriminating folks.

Straight shaving seems to become sort of a trend now. A trend that will go on and grow for a while, but i believe i wont last forever. Majority of people are not willing to put their time and efforts into shaving and restoring razors. They still want to do their shaving quick and effectively with Mach3's and such. I believe we will see the day when prices start coming down again.
As usual, i might as well be all wrong with my guess.

What is positive in this trend that more and more vintage old razors get restored and back to life.

As said for so many times before, some brands have become some kinds of holy grails of razors. Some kind of status symbols. That makes other people want those same brands as well and soon the prices have gone into heaven.
I can say from only past 4 or 5 years but the eBay prices have been rising into stupido levels. Luckily i live in a part of the world where straight shaving is still no trend so it is easy to pick up from a flea market our web auctions razors with reasonable prices. I could easily imagine paying muchos euros for a knife or razor that is somehow unique or handmade, but never for something that was meant to be the cheap everyday tool of a mass production.

Luckily i do not have serious RAD, i rather pick up a razor (or knife or some other vintage tool) whenever i see some nice piece for reasonable price.