Quote Originally Posted by Cangooner View Post
He used power wheels to hone the blade? Or just to polish the sides (i.e. not touching the edge). If power tools are being used to hone the edge, is this a knife sharpener or a dedicated razor honer? I wouldn't let anyone near the edges of my straights with any power tool.

Quite apart from the potential for pretty explosive disasters should a powered tool catch the razor, there is also great heat buildup when using powered tools on a razor. The steel is so thin that it can heat to the point of ruining the edge's hardness in a heartbeat. If that has not happened, then the Boker should be fine once you get the right combination of honer and stone. They are good razors. If the heat treatment has been damaged by overheating, then I'm afraid you're hooped.
I was not there when they ¨honed¨ the boker but for when I asked afterwards they confirmed. I was told, not by them but by a reputable source, is that this is the way the barbers sharpened their razors many years ago in europe. Of course the razors would not last long.

The company that honed the Boker is one of the two that give this service in Barcelona (where I am right now). The other one is my friend and he uses stones. He is the one who honed my SR´s with the shapton. Again, he also honed the boker with the same stone before and after the power wheel treatment and still did not get the sharpness of the two other.