Thread: Böker = Wacker

Hy guys,

Can't belive what I've seen last Saturday on TV. I was watching a report on Kabel1 (german TV) abaout the Böker damascus Razor witch gets forged by Markus Balbach http://www.schmiede-balbach.de. The Razor steel is forged with a new tecnique and has 320 layers, but I think you allready now that. Nevertheless they showed how the razors get forged at Böker etc. But the guy who hones the new Böker razors was Heribert Wacker himself. I couldn't belive my eyes but the reporter said his name. So it doesn't realy matter if somebody buys a Wacker or a new Böker, because they get all honed by Heribert Wacker. The only difference could be in the steel quality.

Did anybody know that, or am I the only one who is surprised?

CU

ALEX

No I had heard tha as well I had also heard some rumor the the new Boker was a relabeled Wacker but who knows what the truth really is?

Did the programme say "honed by" or "ground by"?

The damascus link is interesting - I'm quite a bit more interested in the Boker damascus now (argh!)

I'm not too surprised. The new Bokers really looked a lot like Wacker razors, so it wasn't a big leap to imagine that Wacker might be working under some sort of contract for Boker (who haven't been making straights for a long time and therefor lack staff to do that sort of thing).

Moved this to the razors forum because that is the general discussion forum for razors.

But this is the razors review forum...