How It's Made : Merkur Vision

[Sunburyboy93]

[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSFBiR3Rfs&feature=related[/video]

 

[Johnus]

I'm still looking! May be the Thanksgiving Day Turkey will bring me one!

 

[DJ-Steved]

I would never have thought that that razor was made up of 20 different parts and took 20mins to assemble very interesting.

 

[Mikael]

Fascinating, these modern razors are put together so fast compared to cut throats ... What will they think of next? :icon_razz:

 

[singerman]

that was really interesting, thanks sb. i was surprised by the plastic parts & ordinary springs, are these things service-able if they wear out?

have you been brave enough to take a vintage tto to pieces to service it, was wondering if they are built similarly to these modern merkurs?

 

[FrenchBlade]

that was really interesting, thanks sb. i was surprised by the plastic parts & ordinary springs, are these things service-able if they wear out?

have you been brave enough to take a vintage tto to pieces to service it, was wondering if they are built similarly to these modern merkurs?

Looking at that video, it seems mechanics are very similar to vintage fatboys/slims, very interesting
I've taken a few vintages to pieces for either servicing them, or to use as spare parts.
The hard part is not taking them apart, it's putting them back together again

And as a side note, even slims and fatboys have plastic parts and springs like the Vision, so I wouldn't worry about wear on those.

Max

 

[NotTheStig]

I always imagined the vintage Gillettes to have metal parts. Still, most seem to have lasted well and no corrosion.

 

[shanky887614]

sorry for highjacking the thread

how dovo straight razors are made

[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ACJrAI3SxM[/video]

 

[Mikael]

Cheers Shanky! Nice vid, even though I don't think Dovo makes all their razors like that, anymore.

 

[singerman]

that was really interesting, thanks sb. i was surprised by the plastic parts & ordinary springs, are these things service-able if they wear out?

have you been brave enough to take a vintage tto to pieces to service it, was wondering if they are built similarly to these modern merkurs?

Looking at that video, it seems mechanics are very similar to vintage fatboys/slims, very interesting
I've taken a few vintages to pieces for either servicing them, or to use as spare parts.
The hard part is not taking them apart, it's putting them back together again

And as a side note, even slims and fatboys have plastic parts and springs like the Vision, so I wouldn't worry about wear on those.

Max

thank you max, just goes to prove those mechanics from gillette vintages set the standard for modern razors rick.