My guess is that there’s a little of “you get what you pay for” in this. I don’t know about TI, but Ralf Aust does an amazing job of producing great quality at a very affordable price point. And he is able to supply vendors with a good volume of product. To do this, there’s no way he can put the time and effort into each razor that Ulrik, at Koraat, does for his customs. So I would expect that, due to all the necessary hand work, there is variation in manufacturing tolerances for Austs, and perhaps this is true for other vendors who market more in volume. Perhaps most of the time errors compensate, but occasionally, they accumulate.
My guess is that there’s a little of “you get what you pay for” in this. I don’t know about TI, but Ralf Aust does an amazing job of producing great quality at a very affordable price point. And he is able to supply vendors with a good volume of product. To do this, there’s no way he can put the time and effort into each razor that Ulrik, at Koraat, does for his customs. So I would expect that, due to all the necessary hand work, there is variation in manufacturing tolerances for Austs, and perhaps this is true for other vendors who market more in volume. Perhaps most of the time errors compensate, but occasionally, they accumulate.