Thread: Need Razors Made.

Mate, it's your choice but I suggest you pay attention to the last few posts.

If you decide on DA's as fitting your target market then may I suggest you have them checked for straightness etc, have the heel ground back to where it should be and polished like has been done by one of our guys ( Serephin?). There are a lot of shortcomings that can get you with DA's.


You get what you pay for,

How about a custom is blade blank project by one of our members, and master razor/knife smith?

The concept is in production stage, and I'm working on one for myself.

To me, if I were going for a high end set, I would go this route. Where will you be getting your badger from?

When I buy a high-end item, I research, inspect, invest. If one part is questionable, I'll walk away from the entire idea and never return. This is something to keep in mind. Putting a DA into a $300 dopp kit will be insulting.

Dave

Is that a MUST, that the razors have to be the same? I mean isn't there a chance for the customer to have a choice to choose from nice vintage blades? (even if You rescale them, to match to the rest of the kit). I think if You go for a high-end kit, the razor should be a good one. (I don't have anything against DA's but...) Of course if they fit in Your budget.

The cool thing going on in the straight razor market is where enthusiast buy up old straight razors and bring them back to life with honing, rescaling, and polishing.

I saw a site where an enthusiast was doing this full-time and all of his razors were beautiful. The cool element is that the razor is a unique one when you buy it and you are taking part in recycling.

Pabster

Thanks for all the feed back guys, I will look into that thred on the costume blade blanks.

Well if Lyn says No then perhaps I have the wrong idea. Just thought that DAs could come up good.

So does anyone know if there are companies out their, beside DOVE, TI, LeGrelot & Boker, who mass manufacture razors? Maybe I could source the blades from an already in production blade. Is their any perhaps smaller factories that anyone knows about that could supply for this kit?

Thanks again every one.
Keep it coming, "wage war by wise counsle"

+Buckler

To be completely honest- if someone hasn't found some other 'old factory' or whatever, mass-producing quality straights by now, it probably isn't happening. Seems like this idea comes up a lot and then never really comes to fruition. If you are thinking of doing something cheaply, then obviously there is the issue of mismatching quality and sub-par products as has been brought up. Also, if you do go the cheap route and try DA's or whatever- there are guys who already do that- offering cheap starter kits with Wapis or DA's. I'd just think you'd want to offer some more consistent blades without cosmetic or functional problems like the cheapest blades may have. I don't see a way for you to do this WELL and keep it that cheap.

Originally Posted by Philadelph

To be completely honest- if someone hasn't found some other 'old factory' or whatever, mass-producing quality straights by now, it probably isn't happening. Seems like this idea comes up a lot and then never really comes to fruition. If you are thinking of doing something cheaply, then obviously there is the issue of mismatching quality and sub-par products as has been brought up. Also, if you do go the cheap route and try DA's or whatever- there are guys who already do that- offering cheap starter kits with Wapis or DA's. I'd just think you'd want to offer some more consistent blades without cosmetic or functional problems like the cheapest blades may have. I don't see a way for you to do this WELL and keep it that cheap.

im working on e gettign spyderco into the razor market

Sal used to be a straight razor user and now his son is wanting to give it a shot

Originally Posted by L R Harner

im working on e gettign spyderco into the razor market

Sal used to be a straight razor user and now his son is wanting to give it a shot

Don't know if you've mentioned this before, but that is pretty cool. I've been a fan of the spydies for years (it was the first non swiss army knife I bought for myself....a while back!), and would be thrilled to shave with one as well.