You should give one a serious trial Olie...that is just shear TTO snobbery. A NEW knocks a Rocket "as a shaver" into cocked hat for me.
I've been meaning to post about this subject for a while but as well as blade gap and exposure affecting aggression the head profile makes a significant difference to the feel of a razor, the fact that its an OC has less effect than you probably think.
The odd bent or missing tooth although visually displeasing makes very little if any difference to the shave, if they were bent enough to do so they would just break, as I have discovered. You wouldn't want too pay much for one either but lets say I have one called Shane that I like using.
Seems like they are valued here too
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