A razor is a piece of heat treated steel ground into a razor shaped object.
Its not that difficult. Some of the fine craftsman who do custom razors ($300-500) around here heat treat their blades in rather simple devices in their backyards.
A factory in China is more than capable of stamping out, grinding and heat treating hunks of steel that we call razors. It is not rocket science.
Mostly what you pay for in the high-zoot fancy razors is workmanship and aesthetics. Oh, and a Name, you gotta pay top dollar for a Name brand razor.
The impression at that other forum is that there's alot if hate for the GDs, but if you actually read the threads (if you can find them!), you'll see that 95% of the guys who actually have used a GD really like them.
Im biased, as I'm a GD huckster and part time charlatan. But be that as it may, I don't care if guys buy a GD from me, Buca, or straight from China themselves. I make my mods as a creative outlet, I have been proclaiming GDs for 4-5 years now (back when they were originally known as Double Arrows).
Honing them can be tricky, but OH MYGOODNESS! It's not brain surgery! You simply have to grind down the parts that have too much metal, and then get an appropriate hone and sharpen your $4 piece of heat treated steel. If you screw it up it doesn't matter. And if you are sucessful you saved yourself $100 instead of buying the dreaded and perennially boring Dovo Best 5/8 roundpoint from SRD. I think I may puke if I ever see another accursed Dovo 5/8 roundpoint.
MMMMMRRRBLUUUURFFF!!!!
Dagnabbit, just talking about it may me hurl my dinner.
Anyhow, if paying $150 for a ....for a....*uuurp*...Dovo roundpoint that was ground by some poor slob wearing liederhosen in Germany makes you feel better about yourself than paying $4 for a 13/16" roundpoint ground by some poor slob in communist blue work overalls in China, then by all means, bust out that credit card and get spending.
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YMMV
Its not that difficult. Some of the fine craftsman who do custom razors ($300-500) around here heat treat their blades in rather simple devices in their backyards.
A factory in China is more than capable of stamping out, grinding and heat treating hunks of steel that we call razors. It is not rocket science.
Mostly what you pay for in the high-zoot fancy razors is workmanship and aesthetics. Oh, and a Name, you gotta pay top dollar for a Name brand razor.
The impression at that other forum is that there's alot if hate for the GDs, but if you actually read the threads (if you can find them!), you'll see that 95% of the guys who actually have used a GD really like them.
Im biased, as I'm a GD huckster and part time charlatan. But be that as it may, I don't care if guys buy a GD from me, Buca, or straight from China themselves. I make my mods as a creative outlet, I have been proclaiming GDs for 4-5 years now (back when they were originally known as Double Arrows).
Honing them can be tricky, but OH MYGOODNESS! It's not brain surgery! You simply have to grind down the parts that have too much metal, and then get an appropriate hone and sharpen your $4 piece of heat treated steel. If you screw it up it doesn't matter. And if you are sucessful you saved yourself $100 instead of buying the dreaded and perennially boring Dovo Best 5/8 roundpoint from SRD. I think I may puke if I ever see another accursed Dovo 5/8 roundpoint.
MMMMMRRRBLUUUURFFF!!!!
Dagnabbit, just talking about it may me hurl my dinner.
Anyhow, if paying $150 for a ....for a....*uuurp*...Dovo roundpoint that was ground by some poor slob wearing liederhosen in Germany makes you feel better about yourself than paying $4 for a 13/16" roundpoint ground by some poor slob in communist blue work overalls in China, then by all means, bust out that credit card and get spending.
The views expressed in this post are the sole opinion of the poster, and in no way reflect the views of the B&B staff, moderators, board of directors, head honchos, and or henchmen.
YMMV
