I bought it, and it's not a bad razor, but more or less a standard example of the Maggard and (modern-day)
Apollo Razor: stock stainless handle (good heft) usual chrome-plated zinc alloy head, selling somewhat above normal prices. The marketing style is not to my taste, but the razor's okay. He's apparently working on a stainless model.
He showed up on Reddit's Wicked_Edge to
a somewhat cool reception, but I thought he seemed serious about wanting to make a razor with broad appeal and become a presence in the DE market. I did make one suggestion in the linked thread:
One idea, sort of odd: if you could build some resonance into the head design---some sort of mini-soundbox that would amplify the cutting sound---I think that would have a lot of appeal, and not only to new shavers---and it's something a cartridge razor cannot offer. The Merkur adjustables (Futur, Vision, Progress) have this to some degree, but it seems to be by accident rather than design. But with some thought and CAD work (perhaps with the help of a luthier) it would be interesting to have a razor where you can easily hear the cutting sound. It would have some practical application in making the angle easier to find, but mainly it would simply be intriguing. And I do know that some/many men like to hear the sound of the cutting. And it requires no moving parts, just some clever design.
I know: it's odd. But no odder than designing buildings to remove the shadows between them,
like this . And it might be patentable.
He also
posted that he's working on a stainless-steel razor and had a clear picture (at the link) of the handle with the head fuzzy because it's still being worked on---but of course handles are easy, heads are hard. It will be interesting to see what he comes up with.
I rate razors now not on "mild" vs. "aggressive," but on two dimensions: Comfort and Efficiency. The two seem somewhat independent, and "mild" seems to be used mostly to describe razors that are comfortable and relatively inefficient, while "aggressive" describes that are efficient and somewhat uncomfortable. The ideal, of course, is a razor that is both very comfortable and also very efficient---the Wolfman Wr1-SB certainly qualifies, as do the
new slants, the Feather AS-D2 with a Feather blade, a Gillette Tech with a Feather blade, the Parker 24C or 26C, and others. It seems to me that the code for making razors in the comfortable and also efficient quadrant has been figured out, so that it's not quite so hard to find them. Shawnsel made
a chart of razor characteristics and I filled in the entries for the Comfort and Efficiency columns, so you can see that the sweet spot is becoming populated.