With all the companies like Parker, Merkur, etc. making quality razors, there is no real sense for them to remake their razors when so many of these companies are making near copies of them.
Absolutely. I can imagine anything.Could you imagine one of these companies making a classic DE again?...
Sure it could. During the plastic prohibition era....Could this happen?
Not me. I have GEMs and SEs and shavettes and straight razors. I wouldn't have any reason to go back to carts.If tomorrow there were no more DE/SE razors and blades, I'd move back to carts with no drama and keep having great shaves. There's nothing magical about taking stubble with a DE/SE.
Not me. I have GEMs and SEs and shavettes and straight razors. I wouldn't have any reason to go back to carts.
I agree with your statement that it's a small market for them. I know all of one person outside of my household who shaves with a double edge razor. Everyone else I know uses carts. And one guy even uses his wife's Venus, yes, on his face, because "it already has all the gel lubricants on the head." Eeeewwww. Nah, no market for double edge razors. It's only for small niche players or the ones we already have like Edwin Jagger, Merkur, Parker, Muhle, etc.
All good points guys. Maybe it is pure fantasy to imagine Gillette making some grand tribute product to their century of work on shaving products. I guess it would be like asking General Motors to remake the 1967 Corvette.
Gillette. Schick. Bic. Wilkinson Sword. And there are a bunch of others.
Could you imagine one of these companies making a classic DE again?
I don't think it could possibly happen. I wouldn't bet on it, but you never know. You see oddities like this in the marketing world now and then. If, say, Gillette decided to make the Fatboy again with a few modern touches, they would probably go to an existing new DE maker for some help. It could be a tribute to Gillette, perhaps for an anniversary. They know there is some small market for these razors and it might be an interesting experiment for them.
Could this happen?
Nope! We are a niche market.
The Third World is the main market for traditional wet shaving. The large companies are trying to move Third World shavers to carts and disposables.
Same for me, and I'm the one who got him started! He was a former co-worker, and I used to come in to work with new-to-me vintage razors, and I let him smell the soaps that I used to have delivered to work. He ended up buying a Merkur 34C and trying out a bunch of different soaps, and we'd compare notes everyday. I haven't talked to him in a while, so I assume he still uses his DE.Actually, come to think of it, I too know only one person who uses a DE
Wilkinson Sword does have their new metal safety razor here in Germany at least. Yes, we've discussed that it's not made in-house, but at least they were interested enough to put their name on a new safety razor.