First Impression: Aylsworth APEX razor, Altare brush, and Mac Duffs Santa's Cheer

[@idjekyll]

Damn. I've never seen a razor performing so impressively. I'm hooked.

[@JMac.]

Beauty of a shave Kaleb! I’m loving my APEX, test number 2 will be tonight. Have a great day bud.

[@cyberbully3074]

I've watched every review and you can clearly see that this razor is super efficient , can't wait to get mine already

[@Jacob_Herron]

Heck of a shave Kaleb! I can't wait for my Apex to show up and get that first shave in. And dude if you do a purple Altare, you can count me in for that with a AR1!

[@jingledubz3989]

Great viddy, Kaleb! Got my Apex in the mail today. Will give it a test drive this evening, and will try it with the Astra blades that you sent with it. Be well! 🤘

[@mattfox8436]

Loving the Apex Kaleb. Just the right amount of blade feel!

[@onepassben]

Great shave! APEX looks awesome

[@AZShaveCave]

Would love to have an Aylsworth razor, maybe someday!

[@christopherbianco7445]

Beautiful razor, Kaleb! Is that the Standard or the Plus efficiency level top?

[@juleswinnfield6930]

Great looking razor once again Kaleb, are there going to be any variations in the brush like a 24mm G5C knot? Cheers and Merry Christmas

[@aylsworthshaves8717]

Thanks! We will have different colors for the brush, and different knot types, but not diameters at this time.

[@hairlessjo4788]

Why the move to Chinese manufacturing? I liked the YPM partnership and appreciated supporting small business.

[@aylsworthshaves8717]

We still work with Yates on our Drakkant 316SS and Ti line of razors, and will continue to work with them for other products as well. For this offering though, we wanted to get the price point to sub $150, and the only way to do that with the quality and tolerances that we demand was to dramatically increase the volume of units, and thereby reduce the cost per unit overall. Ultimately it just wasn't feasible to order the kinds of numbers we were looking at within a reasonable timeframe from Yates, while also relying on them for our Drakkant line of products (not to mention their own 921, Winning, and Merica lines). Basically we have a bunch of products we need to keep on the shelves and it was unrealistic to stick with just one manufacturer for everything. Hopefully that makes sense!

[@hairlessjo4788]

Amazing, thank you for the detailed reply!!

[@dimitrisvars9867]

❤🪒💈🎄

[@zypang1447]

Seems really great.