High end razors not used as much

It's quite the opposite for me. I only shave with ATT (have been doing this for the past 3 years). I have various ATTs and I found them to be the best razors I have tried, and thus, I continue to use them for every shave.

Have you tried any of the vintage razors?.

Clayton

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Vintage razors aren't necessarily "high end" although they can be. You can get user grade vintage razors for pretty cheap that will shave as well as the day they were made. Prices can go up if you want a restored vintage razor or a rare, collectible one. I think its cool to have these beauties in my collection that are older than I am, look beautiful and shave very well.

...Prices can go up if you want a restored vintage razor or a rare, collectible one...

Rarely if ever is a restored antique more valuable than an "unmolested" antique. Almost always any restoration kills the collector value. As well, it's almost always cheaper to find a good user grade vintage razor than restoring a "beater". Ebay is full replated & restored vintage razors for exorbitant prices that seem to languish forever unsold.

...Prices can go up if you want a restored vintage razor or a rare, collectible one...

Rarely if ever is a restored antique more valuable than an "unmolested" antique. Almost always any restoration kills the collector value. As well, it's almost always cheaper to find a good user grade vintage razor than restoring a "beater". Ebay is full replated & restored vintage razors for exorbitant prices that seem to languish forever unsold.

True, if you are looking for something rare and collectible you don't want to have it stripped and replated, however, if you've got a run of the mill fatboy in your birth year/quarter theres nothing wrong with having it replated in gold or rhodium to make it really shine. Its an indulgence but there were plenty of those things made and they really aren't rare or valuable. They were never intended to last as long as they have and the quality shows that but with care and attention almost anything can be preserved or restored. What I find shocking occasionally is what awful condition some of these razors are in! I guess they were rode hard and put away wet (literally), knocked against the side of the sink or the countertop and thrown into a dopp kit loose and knocking around against who knows what. The fact that other razors of the same vintage can be pristine only confirms my binary world view - two kinds of people, those that take care of their stuff and those that don't.