Community Authentication, Validation & Valuation Thread

Sooooo can we use this thread to call out flippers reselling items on the BST?
Asking for a friend…

Certainly Not! Heaven forbid that a Flipper or Troll be called out for taking advantage/cheating others while ‘conducting business’!

100 % right I agree 

Here's the pics to show. The razor received after polishing and some with a stock H plate next to the polished H plate. Pics pulled from my Journal in that section a couple years ago to show as proof. If someone says they maintained the original specs after polishing I don't believe them. The person that polished this insisted they maintained the original tolerances....Proof is in the pictures. Looks beautiful ? YES ! Shaves the same ? NO ! How could it......

Ruined, imo. Glad I never shipped my wolfman out to have it polished after the fact. Hate to see that Dave.

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I did too and just wish I had the handle back.....

What was that handle I don't remember a Yates like that?

Ruined, imo. Glad I never shipped my wolfman out to have it polished after the fact. Hate to see that Dave.

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I did too and just wish I had the handle back.....

What was that handle I don't remember a Yates like that?

It was one of the few handles that would work with a Yates. It was a designed by CG for WCS. I forget the name of that one.

I did too and just wish I had the handle back.....

What was that handle I don't remember a Yates like that?

It was one of the few handles that would work with a Yates. It was a designed by CG for WCS. I forget the name of that one.

That what I was thinking but all of those West Coast collaborations and their names lose me.

One more thought or question actually.
    Do you guys think the razor manufacturers are very careful with the base plates when they polish their razors? Makes me wonder especially the very high polished ones.
   Just a thought on it and not wanting to hi jack this thread.

One more thought or question actually.
    Do you guys think the razor manufacturers are very careful with the base plates when they polish their razors? Makes me wonder especially the very high polished ones.
   Just a thought on it and not wanting to hi jack this thread.

This is subjective topic and it varies on a razor how it’s been milled etc..

Here is Overlander Top Cap 

After What’s altered?? Step over preserved and all!!

Here's the pics to show. The razor received after polishing and some with a stock H plate next to the polished H plate. Pics pulled from my Journal in that section a couple years ago to show as proof. If someone says they maintained the original specs after polishing I don't believe them. The person that polished this insisted they maintained the original tolerances....Proof is in the pictures. Looks beautiful ? YES ! Shaves the same ? NO ! How could it......

There isn’t a crisp edge on that Yates plate.  “Anyone who says aftermarket polishing doesn’t change the tolerances of a razor is full of shit or an Instagram Razor Polishing Influencer.” I’m going to reach out to Jake Yates and ask him if he can stop buy and comment on his beautiful razor plate on the left and the burned up plate on the right. That burned up plate needs to be destroyed, no one should ever have that in their possession. 

Unless you’re a skilled CNC Machinist with credentials and years of experience in tooling you’re no more skilled than I am with my Dremel Kit.  

Anyone who can honestly look at these base plates and top caps that are burned up in these images and say the tolerances haven’t changed are either blind or a moron.

I’ve been watching valuable razors getting burned up the last couple years by polishing not done by the creative Artisan and sold on the BST.  Those razors are misrepresented, have no value and don’t shave the way the creative Artisan envisioned. Any buyer of these razors needs to make sure they don’t get back out in the wild and a proper information card be kept on them if not destroyed. 

If you think you have one of these razors, base plates or top caps this thread is probably a good start to authenticate.

One more thought or question actually.
    Do you guys think the razor manufacturers are very careful with the base plates when they polish their razors? Makes me wonder especially the very high polished ones.
   Just a thought on it and not wanting to hi jack this thread.

This is subjective topic and it varies on a razor how it’s been milled etc..

Here is Overlander Top Cap 

After What’s altered?? Step over preserved and all!!

Yes but that wasn't from manufacturer?

One more thought or question actually.
    Do you guys think the razor manufacturers are very careful with the base plates when they polish their razors? Makes me wonder especially the very high polished ones.
   Just a thought on it and not wanting to hi jack this thread.

This is subjective topic and it varies on a razor how it’s been milled etc..

Here is Overlander Top Cap 

After What’s altered?? Step over preserved and all!!

With all due respect Alan, That's not always the case since you're the one that did my Yates razor so please stop acting like an authority on the subject.

One more thought or question actually.
    Do you guys think the razor manufacturers are very careful with the base plates when they polish their razors? Makes me wonder especially the very high polished ones.
   Just a thought on it and not wanting to hi jack this thread.

This is subjective topic and it varies on a razor how it’s been milled etc..

Here is Overlander Top Cap 

After What’s altered?? Step over preserved and all!!

The only person qualified to answer this question is Chris Kirchen of Karve Razors