Thread: Dubl Duck $450, seriously?

Originally Posted by dudness

You've seen them. Okay.
have you shaved with them ?

I do have various makes of older razors and one new production Revisor and they all shave about the same if honed up to the same standard. I prefer their aesthetics to most of the customs I have seen. The customs I have seen, for the most part, are too over the top for me aesthetically and given my experience with the variety of razors I shave with fail to see how a custom would shave significantly better. That is not a put down of the skill and craftsmanship that goes into making a custom nor of the users who prefer them. It is just my personal preference. OTH if someone were to give me a custom I would not be adverse to trying it out and I just might change my mind on them, you never know.

Bob

I don't think anyone ever said a custom razor shaves better than a factory made razor either vintage or modern. People buy the customs because it's well, custom and the perception it's made with more care and quality than any factory made one. Also you can get exactly what you want in a custom razor and lastly you pay for the name on a custom razor. I don't have any true customs however I have many custom class razors and they shave no better than factory made ones.

As above,they all can shave,custom anything are for people that want one of a kind items.The only one on the planet

Originally Posted by kettlebell

I can not understand the fascination of some of the prices of the older razors, if they were hand crafted, but many were not. they were massed produced for the masses who had to use them. and I'm sure quality standards were not the same as what a hand crafted artisan would aspire today. So for the money give me a Mastro Livi, Joe Chandler or Devin Thomas. Even Dovo, Boker, Ralf Aust, and Thiers-Issard, need to be of a hight quality, to bring in new shavers.

Well there is a reason some of this older razors command prices that are high like
1) they were made in the golden age of straight razors (should mean quality).
2) something tells me that some of this razors were a bit rarer that most other razors or they were made for higher paying market.
3) in economics every resource is limited and the nos or almost nos declines day by day driving the process higher and higher.
Sure they are nothing special, but the 60's muscle cars were nothing special either.
Now as far as customs some of the hand crafting techniques of today are what in the past they considered production.

I don't really know, the craftsman will really take care of each piece. I know a few custom razormakers and they really throw a lot of passion in the making of razors. You should hear or read them talking about tempering, honing with their brand new nakayama, etc. Notice that I did not shave with a custom to this day either. But I really think there must be something more about a custom than the average Heljestrand (which I love BTW).

I would not be adverse to trying it out and I just might change my mind on them, you never know.

It is a real pleasure talking with you.

With customs it is all a matter of perception. The perception of better quality through one off production and attention to detail. The perception that there is more monetary value based on the previously mentioned perception. Then there is the perception that it should shave better. Not everyone has the same perception as the DD shows. The good thing is that there is something to fit everyone's perception out there. It is not a matter of right and wrong either.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

With customs it is all a matter of perception. The perception of better quality through one off production and attention to detail. The perception that there is more monetary value based on the previously mentioned perception. Then there is the perception that it should shave better. Not everyone has the same perception as the DD shows. The good thing is that there is something to fit everyone's perception out there. It is not a matter of right and wrong either.

Bob

Confucius say: When it come to perception, P is for what you rather be off than on
e is for the error you have made
r is for regret
c is for being too certain of your decision
e is for eating the crow
p is for what you don't do in the wind
t is for the realization of the ultimate truth which only comes to the enlightened
i is for the information you wish you had when you made your decision but didn't due to folly on your part
o is for the important option you didn't order with your custom which would have made all the difference
n is for realizing this is all nonsense.


But I'm glad Confucius said it and not me.

The 2 duck logo, troubles me. Not sure Id get one at 150$!

(Do have one, somewhere, I got at ~ 40$, ducks still disturb me!)

I like mine...

In the near future, I think 10Pups will be posting a very fine looking SatinWedge.

I have only had the chance to shave with ONE custom razor, and I will not say it was "better" than a DD, it certainly was "different" from it. Like so many things, its often a feeling that can not be put into words.
And I agree with a previous post, how many makers today produce in extra hollow singing style razors? with a thickness of only a few thousands of an inch?