Quote Originally Posted by kettlebell View Post
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.