DS-OR

It was supposed to come out on April 2023.
Only couple of photos of it are available .







It seems that this razor did not make it to the production line ...
Or did it ,under a different brand and model name ? 

To my eyes it looks to be the same exact design with another razor,
lately hitting the market .
Both made in China .
The SAME EXACT design .

Weird things are happening lately .
Really weird things...

Victim ?
Who is the victim ,Dave ?

The "DS-OR" was available only for few days.
After that ,nothing .
The design disappeared in thin air ,just like that.

Or did someone bought the "rights" of this 
particular razor from DS ?

Victim ?
Who is the victim ,Dave ?

The "DS-OR" was available only for few days.
After that ,nothing .
The design disappeared in thin air ,just like that.

Or did someone bought the "rights" of this 
particular razor from DS ?

Deleted my post as I may have misunderstood your vaque initial post. I thought 2 similar razors were being made after someone tried to get it produced in China, that wouldn't be the first time that happened. I don't know what happened in the scenario you have so I'll refrain from commenting.

I'm not suggesting something here.
All I know is that this "DS-OR" hit the market for few days ,
at the beginning of April 2023 and then disappeared completely .

After a month or so ,another razor ,from another company was announced to
to be produced .
Thing is that those razors look exactly the same ,
as two drops of water do.

And seriously I do not think that this is
the notorious "copy-paste" scenario that we are
accustomed  with products from chinese companies.
This is something else.
The "copy" was produced long ago before the "original".
And long before the "original" hit the market ,
the "copy" had vanished into thin air.

Weird situation ,me thinks.

After years of experience in China, I would say it does not make sense to pay for an exclusive manufacturing arrangement (unless you are Gillette).  China also culturally doesn’t recognize IP.  So if someone at company X decided to take your design to company Y and make the same thing (in China), it happens.  

I did read the blogs on the original razor.  I do believe it was attempted to get mfg’d here, that didn’t work out and it was sent to China a while before this April.

I've no reason to doubt what you claim ,
but for example Apple is one company that it's IP was well respected
by the chinese Foxconn.

Furthermore ,what it does not make any sense ,
is that the DS-OR was withdrawn from the market .
I see no reason for such thing to happen ,
if the DS-OR was a case of IP stealing  .
There are chinese-made  copies of the Muhle R41 and R89,of the Razorock Game Changer,Lupo and BBS,Charcoal Goods ,Carbon Shaving ,even copies of Wolfman WR2 .
Why this particular "copy" ( assuming that it is as such ) of a recently released razor ,
was withdrawn all together ,even before the "original" was released.
It does not make any sense ,especially when taking into consideration the mentality of chinese trade culture ...

?

Furthermore ,in order to make a copy :

1 ) Either one has to acquire the blueprints ...
or
2 ) either has to obtain a specimen to reverse engineer it
( by the use of a 3D scanner ,for example ).

I think neither of these cases stands true.
The blueprints are well kept and protected by the owner/designer and
could not have been shared ,while obtaining a specimen was impossible,
simply because there was not any at the time the DS-OR was released .
The "original"  razor did not exist at all ,back then.


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