Thread: TI Quality ?

Now everybody knows why I prefer vintage...

Originally Posted by garythepenman

Looks better now though...

I'll say she does. Good job. Not so bad after all.

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It /does/ look a lot better now!

I wonder if this quality issue changes depending on how expensive the razor is. If I were to purchase an expensive razor, and find shoddy workmanship, I would just about hit the ceiling.

Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer

It /does/ look a lot better now!

I wonder if this quality issue changes depending on how expensive the razor is. If I were to purchase an expensive razor, and find shoddy workmanship, I would just about hit the ceiling.

I take it you haven't bought many new razors lately? And I suspect it's not only TI... Comparing TI scales to Bill Ellis scales is quite educational, and I am sure TI can at least try to do a better job

Having said this, my SRP TI is an absolutely fabulous shaver.

Originally Posted by izlat

I take it you haven't bought many new razors lately? And I suspect it's not only TI... Comparing TI scales to Bill Ellis scales is quite educational, and I am sure TI can at least try to do a better job

Having said this, my SRP TI is an absolutely fabulous shaver.

Actually, the look of the scales on the SRP razor is what's thusfar kept me from buying one. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but looking at the picture on classichaving, I like the blade a lot, but hate the look of the scales.

Keith, I think the scales are worse in person than the pic on CS

seriously, though

Originally Posted by izlat

Keith, I think the scales are worse in person than the pic on CS

seriously, though

I wonder if having custom scales put on would defeat the whole purpose of a collectable razor. Or make Lynn mad at me.

I have two of the SRPs and personally I think they were trying to keep the price point as low as possible and still have a quality TI blade and the scales were, lets just say the place where they had to do the skimping. I agree they're not the sharpest looking but its a fantastic shaver. And if you think you'd be P.O d when you spent $200 o so for a TI and got a razor with poor quality control just think how I felt when I spent over $700 for one of their damascus razors and got exactly the same QC. I actually had to get my dremmel out to polish up the horn scales because they were dull dull dull. I won't even comment on the pinning job.

I think you now know why I only sell Dovos.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I have two of the SRPs and personally I think they were trying to keep the price point as low as possible and still have a quality TI blade and the scales were, lets just say the place where they had to do the skimping. I agree they're not the sharpest looking but its a fantastic shaver. And if you think you'd be P.O d when you spent $200 o so for a TI and got a razor with poor quality control just think how I felt when I spent over $700 for one of their damascus razors and got exactly the same QC. I actually had to get my dremmel out to polish up the horn scales because they were dull dull dull. I won't even comment on the pinning job.

I should apologize for semi-hijacking this thread from what Gary originally intended, though I think that my tangent isn't completely tangiential. Is TIs problem, then, that they put a good blade on crappy scales for all their razors?