Blackbird vs Barbaros vs Seygus

Ah I see. I hope it all works out

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Thanks my friend. I have so many razors to choose from, I don't lose any sleep over it.

Haha. Thats good to know. I cant say the same...it was supposed to be my last razor to purchase and to keep in my minimalistic den...but it didn't work out as well as you all know.

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Yes, but polishing doesn't remove dents.  Polishing would have been easy to deal with, but when you have dents, those cant be polished.

At least he is working on it.  I opted for a partial refund, just didn't want to deal with it any longer.  Now, I just have to wait and see when I get the refund, lol.....

he said he will only be sending out ones that look very good. i have some super close up pics and they do look awesome. i will wait and let you guys know how it looks when i get it. but from the pics at least it looks almost as nice as even a wolfman polish job (might be different in person though)

nice. I know he is doing what he can to rectify the situation.

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i own a wolfman and like i said "from the pics" he sent me it looks awesome. in person maybe not. here is another pic:

Ah I see. I hope it all works out

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Thanks my friend.  I have so many razors to choose from, I don't lose any sleep over it.

Haha. Thats good to know. I cant say the same...it was supposed to be my last razor to purchase and to keep in my minimalistic den...but it didn't work out as well as you all know.

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I could have actually lived with the polishing issue, but the scratch and dent part of it? No way, that was too much for me. But, hopefully I get the partial refund and move along, lol....

i own a wolfman and like i said "from the pics" he sent me it looks awesome. in person maybe not. here is another pic:

That's definitely much better. That's the way it should have been before shipping. Specially on a prepaid item that was in production for months.

I polished my Barbaros with a dremmel, white polishing compound, jeweler's rouge, simichrome, and then flitz. Just the handle and the top cap. Mostly the handle.

Mine will never come up to the same finish as the Wolfman mirror finish I've seen with the tools and products I have. Not unless I try and spend an insane amount of time on it.

There's just too many tooling marks on the handle. Mostly in the channels and grooves. There's a few little dings. Not really any serious scratches on mine after I finished. Not really when I started either.

I did one side first and then compared.
I had to go all the way after that. I didn't really take a lot of pictures. It's hard to see the difference in pictures anyways.

It's a night and day difference I think. I didn't think it would bother me the other day. I had a little time to mess around with it this afternoon so I did. It looks spectacular now so I'm kind of glad I did.

There's a few little dings and dents here and there. Nothing on the head that interferes with shaving and nothing on the handle that's obvious without a close inspection.

I looked at another artisan handle I own. Jergen Hemple Ti UFO handle. Had I looked at it as critically as I did the Barbaros when I got it, I'd have been more fired up then I am about the Barbaros.

The Ti handle I have has more issues then the Barbaros handle I got does. Mostly really sloppy threads that won't work with every razor head I have. It has a matte finish, but it's hardly refined and finished to the same level as I'd like.

What's my point?

I don't really know.
You guys got me paranoid and looking critically at things I wouldn't normally have been concerned about.

So, I'm done with nit picking my Barbaros.

I'm saving my critical attention to detail for future high dollar investments.
I will check back to see the input and opinions posted if and when someone who has the different razors for comparison chimes in to answer OP's original question.

I don't own the Blackbird or Seygus so I'm interested in the comparisons too myself.

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It sounds not as bad as mine was. My baseplate has 3 noticeable dents in it. They were detectable as soon as I took it out of the packaging without having to examine closely. I could hold it at an arm's length away and still see them clear as day. Some others may have had different deficiencies when they received theirs, but I am glad you are able to see through it

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I polished my Barbaros with a dremmel, white polishing compound, jeweler's rouge, simichrome, and then flitz. Just the handle and the top cap. Mostly the handle.

Mine will never come up to the same finish as the Wolfman mirror finish I've seen with the tools and products I have. Not unless I try and spend an insane amount of time on it.

There's just too many tooling marks on the handle. Mostly in the channels and grooves. There's a few little dings. Not really any serious scratches on mine after I finished. Not really when I started either.

I did one side first and then compared.
I had to go all the way after that. I didn't really take a lot of pictures. It's hard to see the difference in pictures anyways.

It's a night and day difference I think. I didn't think it would bother me the other day. I had a little time to mess around with it this afternoon so I did. It looks spectacular now so I'm kind of glad I did.

There's a few little dings and dents here and there. Nothing on the head that interferes with shaving and nothing on the handle that's obvious without a close inspection.

I looked at another artisan handle I own. Jergen Hemple Ti UFO handle. Had I looked at it as critically as I did the Barbaros when I got it, I'd have been more fired up then I am about the Barbaros.

The Ti handle I have has more issues then the Barbaros handle I got does. Mostly really sloppy threads that won't work with every razor head I have. It has a matte finish, but it's hardly refined and finished to the same level as I'd like.

What's my point?

I don't really know.
You guys got me paranoid and looking critically at things I wouldn't normally have been concerned about.

So, I'm done with nit picking my Barbaros.

I'm saving my critical attention to detail for future high dollar investments.
I will check back to see the input and opinions posted if and when someone who has the different razors for comparison chimes in to answer OP's original question.

I don't own the Blackbird or Seygus so I'm interested in the comparisons too myself.

well, if you pay a good bit of money for something, you'd expect a certain level of quality that you wouldn't see in a $10 razor. I wouldn't call that being 'paranoid', just wanting good value for your money.