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Is it a bad idea to buy a used safety razor?
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  1. Jayaruh
    No problemo...
    Most of my razors are used and old. They are experienced shavers and for the most part are cheaper than new razors and almost always better built.
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  2. '65 G-Slim
    "First you buy one vintage razor and then pretty soon you buy another vintage razor and then before you know it you've got twenty vintage razors."

    I'll have 21 when my next two get delivered.
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  3. Jayaruh
    I've got 22 that are SE razors. I have 45 vintage razors and a hand full of post 2000 razors.
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  4. youngunn
    Do you use a fork and knife from a restaurant? Just clean in hot water and soap.
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  5. Omaney
    It's a terribly bad idea...I need y'all to stop buying them immediately.
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  6. Jim99
    Give your vintage razor a proper cleaning before you use it to get rid of those nasty cooties and you're good to go.
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  7. PLANofMAN
    I think it's a terrible idea to buy used razors. If everyone stopped buying used razors, the demand for modern, new razors would rise, lowering costs and injecting more fresh blood (poor choice of words there) into the dynamic culture of wetshaving.

    Which in turn would cause the price of used razors to fall drastically, making it easier for the poor collectors of unusual and rare razors to expand their collections.

    They of course would never ever dream of using those razors. ;)
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  8. Jim99
    Maybe then I could afford that toggle!
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  9. DLP

    :signs011:
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  10. DaltonGang
    Toggle? I'll go for a cheap bottom dial Gillette Fatboy
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  11. Redfisher
    It's a bad habit that will cost you money.... This is why it's so much fun!
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  12. Jayaruh
    I am holding out for the Toggle Bottom Dial.
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  13. Hodge
    Nor loquacious:D
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  14. Bama Samurai
    Never use big words, especially when diminutive words would most assuredly suffice.
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  15. Bama Samurai
    How much did @Darkbulb bribe you to say that?;)
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  16. hrairy
    Too late!!
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  17. chrisf8657
    I will admit I was put of by "used" razors when I first started wetshaving, but then I learned as long as you clean them in a Quat (Quantenary Amonium - basically 409, Lysol, etc.), there is nothing to worry about. If you are extra concerned, use Barbicide which is stronger. A 10 minute soak kills anything.

    Never had an issue.
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  18. spidey9
    No.

    Of course, I have over 100 of them, so I might not be the best person to ask. :rolleyes:

    Seriously, there is something magical about shaving with a razor that is over 100 years old.

    --Bob
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  19. tuxxdk
    Exactly. No need to go all nuke on it.

    Regular clean and you're good to go.
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  20. Sabre
    The majority of vintage razors I have bought have been NOS, sometimes I have picked up a near mint used razor but they are usually cased with a few blades missing so that you know it was hardly used. I bought one batch of used razors and soaked them in normal disinfectant then washing up liquid.
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