Oh wow. Even your categories have categories. This is a game where reading the rules takes longer than playing. But…It is Thanksgiving in the US and so hopefully everyone is enjoying time with loved ones. We do not have Thanksgiving per se in the Netherlands, but I do have a lot to be thankful of - including this little place called B&B and the friends I get to meet there. One of those friends happens to be the owner of this thread and so with much pleasure I continue our journey in razor definitions.
As always: reading disclaimer: YMMV - these are my personal opinions and views and cannot be seen as representative for the B&B community.
So now that's out of the way again, let's see what we think about Unicorn razors and Goldilocks razors. I think these to are related actually. There are subtleties to be found here are well
A Unicorn-in-want razor is the razor:
A Goldilocks-in-want razor is the razor:
- you always wanted
- you do not currently have
- you find aesthetically pleasing in design, and
- requires extensive searching and seeking [therefore most likely a non-current model]
A Unicorn-in-have razor is the razor:
- you really want
- you do not currently have
- you find aesthetically pleasing in design or peaks your curiosity, and
- requires a single purchase [therefore most likely a current model]
A Goldilocks-in-have razor is the razor:
- you always wanted
- you do currently have
- you find aesthetically pleasing in design
- delivers the shave results you are after, and
- you use it less that a Holy Grail and more than a Goldilocks-in-have*
After obtaining such a razor we refer back to the Holy Grail razor definition to check if a Unicorn and/or Goldilocks razor fits those criteria - i.e. a razor can shift categories. If not, a razor can stay stable and only shift from 'in-want' to 'in-have'.
- you really wanted
- you currently have
- you find aesthetically pleasing in design
- delivers the shave results you are after, and
- you use it less that a Holy Grail and more than a Rotation razor (see below)
*) I do realize that you may have a Unicorn-in-have razor that you intentionally shave less with, e.g. to preserve the razor or to save it for special occasions like a birth quarter razor.
With that in mind, there are two other categories to be defined as well obviously. These are the ones that currently came to my mind:
A Rotation razor is the razor:
A Pass-on razor is the razor:
- you have in your collection
- you find pleasing in design
- delivers at least decent shaving results, and
- you occassionally use and at least less than a Goldilocks-in-have razor, but more than a Pass-on razor
The Pass-around razor could at first have been a Goldilocks razor that simply wasn't what you thought it would be. If you continue to use it with some regularity it would be a Rotation razor - otherwise it will become a Pass-on razor.
- you have in your collection
- you find pleasing in design
- delivers at least decent shaving results
- you rarely use and at least less than a Rotation razor
- would be ok with if it was not in your collection
And then there is the Display razor, which is basically a razor you have, maybe even Unicorn status, but you do not use and only have for collection purposes.
I currently do not have Unicorn-in-want razors on my list and have one Unicorn-in-have razor. I have a couple of Goldilocks-in-want razors (and this list expands and shrinks periodically), such as the Karve CB, Mühle Rocca and Lambda's. My other razors fall into Goldilocks-in-have and Rotation razors. I have no Pass-on razors at the moment.
Reading disclaimer 1: YMMV
Reading disclaimer 2: read disclaimer 1
Looking forward to your views again everyone.
Cheers,
Guido.
I guess a unicorn-in-want razor for me might be the Raw Shaving RS10, although I don’t know if it would seem as good now, when compared to some of the best newer razors. Impossible to say without owning one.
Oh, no, wait, it wouldn’t be that, it would be the Janus prototype (before they changed the spec for the ill-fated production model). Yeah, that’s my unicorn razor. In gold. I wonder if the Janus will ever be resurrected.