Thread: The Boker Brotherhood

Sooo many lovely Bokers!

This one was an antique store find. Big blade on her in decent condition, scales have a crack on the rear non-pivot end along with several chips, so I may replace them, but I may not.

The "Puritan". I'm not sure if this was made specifically for a company or someone, as I can't really find anything that has to do with puritan razors at all. The spine is very pitted, but it's good by the edge. Neat little blade.

My "Celebrated" Boker. Yay! This one's seen some use, and someone tried to polish her up but just ended up taking off part of the etching... still sharp enough as is to shave with though, and she still shaves mighty fine! This one was a 'bay purchase, and the "Puritan" just before this was an antique store find.

I finally got an Edelweiss! Another antique store find, the etching was in better shape before I took the autosol polish to it... I tried to see if there was any mention of the edelweiss etching coming off with polishing before I actually did, but I must have missed it cause I didn't see any mention. oh, well... live and learn. It's still legible and the blade and scales are in pretty good condition with reasonable wear.

An "Unrivalled" hollow ground. A 'bay purchase that came in very tarnished but pretty sharp. When I got the Autosol out, she polished right up to a near mirror finish, and uncovered a very nice spine etching on her! Very little hone wear, and the scales are in decent condition, other than a crack near the non-pivot pin, but it's staying pretty tight and doesn't appear to be shifting, so I'll try a little super glue to keep the crack from widening more.

I have a feeling I'm going to really love the way this one shaves!

An "Our Own". This and a few others were actually from a private collector now that I think of it. He had some nice Bokers, but that was about it.

Bought the whole collection from him so I had some parts for repairs as there were a few blades that had massive cracks in them which made me wince (one with a crack was a very nice king cutter with the gold etching still very bright and clear, little tarnish on the blade... sigh.) This one I seem to remember was the best of the lot.





That's it for this round gentlemen and ruffians! I think that puts me at around 15 different Bokers currently... how am I ever going to use them all regularly?

I've posted here already, but I thought it was time I updated with my current collection of Bokers..... So here you go.

A couple of very minty Bokers. Not quite NOS but very close.


4 of my daily users


And a few that need attention

Here's one I got recently. I think I have another Boker, I just can't find it right now..................

I really like that one! MoP tang with a thumb notch! Very nice!