Why are there very few modern TTOs?

NotTheStig

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There seem to be very few TTO safety razors made these days. Parker and Weishi spring to mind, as does Timor, but haven't seen the more upmarket brands doing a butterfly-opening razor?

I quite like the mechanism (feels gadgety to me) and were clearly popular in the past, but haven't seen any expensive razors use this design nowadays.
 
I'm glad there are still some out there. If DE shaving continues to grow hopefully there'll be more.

Are two/three piece razors seen as a better choice for some reason?
 
From a manufacturing point of view they're much simpler than TTO - since DE razors are at best a niche market, tooling up to produce the specialised parts of a TTO and putting it altogether accurately will have too long a payout time. Having had a Parker TTO and held a Weishi neither looks nor feels substantial in the same way as a vintage Gillette or Wilkinson Sword TTO (the Parker has such thin silo doors that overtightening by less than 1/8 turn leads to one or both of the doors pinging off across the room)
 
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, that makes sense to me. My first ever DE razor was a Parker 91R (3 piece) and one day it the thread inexplicably broke off inside the razor just after I'd inserted a new blade. I still have a spare of the same model but have never used it.

I'll definitely steer clear of the Parker TTOs!
 
Whenever I see the doors on Merkur Vision open up, I always think of that sequence in 'You Only Live Twice' when that spaceship gobbles up another. I even hear the music in my head!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WczHADTsIec[/youtube]

Ian
 
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