Its Quiet Out There....Too Quiet?

Ridiculous. For example I get a similar shave from my '31-ish New LC as I do from my Timeless .95 SB. No question the Timeless is much smoother and much harder to cut myself with. I love vintage razors as much as the next guy, particularly 40s SS, Red Tips and New LC, but if you think the Timeless ( for example) isn't an improvement you're in a mental institution.

based of forum pageviews, we always see a dip in traffic during summer and around Christmas time.  that said, we're still over 300,000+ pageviews a month and just shy of 3.8M from January 1st - December 30th: 3,759,974

Pretty good indicator we are still growing.

seems to be holding steady around the 300-350k pageviews/month for a while now.

final pageview numbers for 2018: 3,770,121

2017 numbers: 3,432,468

2016 numbers: 3,258,655

We made the forum public in I think June of 2015 so no point in me looking up those numbers. it'd be great to break the 4M mark in 2019. We hope to have some exciting stuff rolling out in 2019...stay tuned.

Just a sincere question.. but what if someone refreshes the page, clicks the DFS in the top of the screen, or is in and out of the same pages, etc.. do those count as separate views? Because I will be honest, I do that quite a bit when I'm here lol.

I'm honestly not sure how google handles it. I'm sure they have some sophisticated algorithm to figure it out though!

Ridiculous.     For example I get a similar shave from my '31-ish New LC as I do from my Timeless .95 SB.  No question the Timeless is much smoother and much harder to cut myself with.  I love vintage razors as much as the next guy, particularly 40s SS, Red Tips and New LC, but if you think the Timeless ( for example) isn't an improvement you're in a mental institution.

Don't sugarcoat it, tell us what you really think!!


Here's an old Gillette salesman's manual that breaks it all down so even a Caveman can understand it. No magical alloys or Keebler Elves Pixie Dust. Just simple science that has remained static for decades (inside & outside of mental institutions).


https://imgur.com/a/s0S06#f8G7U13

Ridiculous.     For example I get a similar shave from my '31-ish New LC as I do from my Timeless .95 SB.  No question the Timeless is much smoother and much harder to cut myself with.  I love vintage razors as much as the next guy, particularly 40s SS, Red Tips and New LC, but if you think the Timeless ( for example) isn't an improvement you're in a mental institution.

Don't sugarcoat it, tell us what you really think!!    


Here's an old Gillette salesman's manual that breaks it all down so even a Caveman can understand it. No magical alloys or Keebler Elves Pixie Dust. Just simple science that has remained static for decades (inside & outside of mental institutions).  


https://imgur.com/a/s0S06#f8G7U13

If modern razors are exact copies of vintage razors just in new material I would agree with you. If you honestly think a timeless or charcoal goods is just a gillette super speed in a fancy alloy you are way off. You may want to lay off that keebler dust. You mentioned earlier you shave with techs. I find them very mild, for me they take a lot of work to remove hair. I have modern razors that are far more aggressive and at the same time feel a lot smoother than a tech. Just out of curiosity what modern machined razors in fancy alloys do you have experience with?

I've also noticed a slowdown on activity on some of the major wet shaving forums. For me, I've become tired of some of the rampant fanboyism that occurs on a number of the sites. I've also tired of the limited edition releases and the Fear-Of-Missing-Out that's been driving much of the hobby for the last few years. There are soap makers who can't be bothered to make more than 20 tins a year and people will still piss themselves trying to buy it. I love reading about new products... but this is reached a level of insanity that I want no part of.

I've also noticed a slowdown on activity on some of the major wet shaving forums. For me, I've become tired of some of the rampant fanboyism that occurs on a number of the sites. I've also tired of the limited edition releases and the Fear-Of-Missing-Out that's been driving much of the hobby for the last few years. There are soap makers who can't be bothered to make more than 20 tins a year and people will still piss themselves trying to buy it. I love reading about new products... but this is reached a level of insanity that I want no part of.

We've noticed the hobbyist downward trend. We're targeting the regular Joe. Our strategy...no limited editions, a limited number of scents, and have stock AVAILABLE. Our normal customers just buy over and over.

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Hey Marko , remember this thread?

https://damnfineshave.com/thread-i-am-ta...the-dragon

I think some people maybe going through this same realization, without knowing it. When a perfumer, acting as a soaper, is trying to recreate the scent profile of an oil used by Julius Caesar and uses moon dust for glide, it becomes redundant.

With mid-tier soapers making fantastic products year after year that are repeatable, reliable, and consistent, it's easier to just let the hoarders and resellers buy up the ever present and repetitive new releases. They sit on them like Facebook or Apple stocks only to be resold at a later date.

Same with new production razors. How many different ways can you clamp a DE blade, Gem blade, or injector blade that hasn't been tried since 1960?

I rotate 8 soaps from 3 different makers using a different (vintage) razor each night. And this only depends on the season. Spring/summer will bring a different rotation of soaps from those same 3 makers.

Choice is nice but so it repeatability and consistence. Newer isn't always better than the old.

I do now Obviously I was feeling this way last spring and its only gotten stronger. Don't get me wrong, I love my shaves and I'll keep on doing it this way until I can't but I just don't feel the need to keep on buying stuff. I won't lie, I will occasionally get the urge and I might even put a few items in a shopping cart but then that voice in my brain says, "you don't need that" and I put it back on the shelf.

There have been a few noticeable trends in the last several years to me. At first it was just soap. There was soap to buy, but not nearly the amount there is now. New artisans were coming out every week or day even with something new. Then I noticed synthetic brushes. Plisson was it or you could buy a cheap plastic handle with some fishing line glued into it. Then a wave of synthetics came out that were both great in performance and cheap. In the last year or so it has been Edt/EdPs. It seems something new pops up to keep the FOMO train rolling. I wonder what the next, "New thing," will be..........or have we hit the ceiling? I have no idea, but it will be interesting to watch. I've grown tired a of the next new thing for a while now though and am not excited over them as much as I used to be a couple of years ago. Even a lot of the big youtubers from several years ago have either dropped of the face of the earth, or are putting out very minimal content these days.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/12...y-schwartz