View Poll Results: Which do you prefer?
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06-23-2011, 01:52 PM #1illegitimum non carborundum
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Vintage.
Cheap, effective, cheap, historical, cheap, diverse, cheap.Havachat45 likes this.
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06-23-2011, 01:55 PM #2Customized
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This poll really needs one more option.
I really like both old and new.Bjoernar
Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....
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06-23-2011, 01:59 PM #3Member
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You can only use one at a time (unless you're a LOT braver than I am)
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06-23-2011, 02:06 PM #4Senior Member
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+1. I can't exclude one or the other. Both have their place in my accumulation. Originally Posted by Birnando
Be careful how you treat people on your way up, you may meet them again on your way back down.
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06-23-2011, 02:25 PM #5I shave with a spoon on a stick.
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Melt your old razors down and have a new razor forged to rule them all.
Originally Posted by Birnando
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06-23-2011, 03:31 PM #6
In general vintage is where the true quality is and the history is icing on the cake. Having said that there is also something very nice about getting a brand spanking new razor. The best of both worlds would be to get a NOS vintage still sealed in is original wrappings.
JimmyHAD likes this.No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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06-23-2011, 05:17 PM #7Senior Member
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I'm for having both as well, I love new wackers and revisors (at least the look of them), would like to tget the hold of one of the Ti Grelot blank razors, But love my old razors too, esp my Puma.
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06-23-2011, 05:56 PM #8Senior Member
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I have 5 new razors, 2 NOS razors, and 21 vintage razors. The total cost of the 7 new (NOS) razors approximately equals the total cost of the 21 vintage razors!
I love both new and vintage razors. I finally checked new because my new Thiers-Issard Le Grelot is, without a doubt, my best shaver.
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06-24-2011, 06:51 PM #9Excited Member
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I actually enjoy a well tarnished razor. As long as the hone wear isn't too bad, and the edge of the razor's heel isn't too far into the shoulder (edge of heel) I enjoy using a "piece of junk" that shaves very well. Devil's spit is my icing on the cake.. the cake of Satan! I also like well tarnished razors because the tarnish is a form of protection against further corrosion (at least from plain water) and any new tarnish won't worry me.
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06-24-2011, 07:12 PM #10Some kind of Zombie
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I'm definitely a vintage guy, but that's true for a lot of my hobbies/interests in life. Sure a new razor is neat, and if people didn't buy new razors we would eventually run out of razors. But I really dig the vintage razor's I've collected from the tarnished 4/8 Wade, to the NOS Boker.
Oh, and they're cheap.
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