I light my smokes with a 60 year old lighter and shave with a 200 year old straight.
Only thing I buy new are socks and drawers. Well.... toilet paper. :gaah:
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I light my smokes with a 60 year old lighter and shave with a 200 year old straight.
Only thing I buy new are socks and drawers. Well.... toilet paper. :gaah:
...for example, my new shave ready theo a koch: Vintage Marcella Straight Razor shave ready Germany - eBay (item 220751155105 end time Mar-18-11 16:27:56 PDT)
A lot of sellers that refurbish blades that I see also take pride in honing them for you. Part of the buyers package :)
I am not so sure about that, if there was sufficient interest the techniques could be reinvented. There is nothing particularly magic about razors that would make the manufacture a archane art compared to other high end blade manufacture. Some specific differences because of the differing nature of the requirements but not unsolvable.
The issue would be if there were no new razors being made how long could a reasonable number of people use the existing stock? And if that stock is depleted would you be able to build enough of a market to sustain a manufacturer other than the custom market?
Then we need to build a larger market for new razors to support more manufacturers.
Making the tooling for a different razor design could well cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. You need to be confident in enough sales of less common shapes to justify that expenditure.
Great dicussion,,, well not really :shrug:
How about this answer...
You buy what you want, I will buy what I want, I won't look down on you, and you don't look down on me ;) I think that about setlles it, don't you ????
That poor selection would look even poorer without them!
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...UfYMs3-AO2yS6x
Those Gillettes are looking more like rocketships every day :D