Poll: What are the TWO things you look for in a razor? (ignore poll title)

This may be a tough call to make. Many will want to pick more than one option. But, sorry! If you were forced to answer honestly, what is THE most appealing factor for you? I've got DEs in mind here but it need not be limited to them. If you think of any options I should include, I'll edit them into the poll. All comments and explanations welcome. Complaints should be directed in writing to,

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I will play. Doesn't matter if DE or SE or whatever it may be. I look for traditional tools. Vintage rules.

 

i love all my vintage gillettes, their looks, style ,build quality, history and rarity then and now.. but it all means beans if they don t shave worth a ... well you know..a show piece is nice but its gotta work or its gone, no cabinet queens in this stable..

 

I predict your answer will be in the top 2 or 3 by the time everyone's chimed in.

 

Reliability...that one too.

 

Could be. It will be interesting to see actually. Great poll.

 

Probably quality. I expect the blade to fit in it straight without me having to fiddle with aligning the blade.

 

Yep. The secret (which really isn't a secret around here) is that there's a lot of overlap in nearly all of those options...vintage USUALLY gets you quality, can also get you reliability and appearance, etc.

Now that I think of it, "modern manufacture" should be an option, as there are some who prefer it.

 

I'd have to go with reliability. If it doesn't shave, nothing else matters.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick.

 

To bounce off what Fuzzy said, vintage does rule.
Honestly, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know of any "new" way to make a blade cut hair.

It's awfully hard to reinvent the wheel.
While I do enjoy the vintage and the history of my old stuff, I don't use it because of that. I use them because of the simplicity of the design and because it is a tried and true proven design.

 

And that one as well.

 

Yea for some reason people like those silly modern things....

 

Agreed, but I think I've read of guys who (for whatever reasons) dislike vintage and are totally sold on newly made razors. That's as legit an opinion as anyone else's so I just added that as a poll option.

 

well said ..

 

I go for hystery, um, history and tradition as well. That is my first trigger. Second is shave quality. But I'm not really interested in a brand new excellent razor. Vintage is the thing for me!

 

i would call some modern razor models "vintage refined " as they have improved some characteristics over the originals they have copied..a wheel is a wheel..

 

Veddy nice!

 

Almost all of my razors are vintage. Injectors and SEs, but I voted cost since I try to keep razors to $20 or less when buying.

 

Because they are shiny and new. I'll take my vintage razors over new ones. For me it comes down to using proper technique, and learning how a razor shaves.

Clayton

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