Thread: The Boker Brotherhood

Welcome to the forum. With razors you will likely never know the date of manufacture, only an approximate span of years it may have been made in. You may find the model from old catalogues and sources like that. Yes, it is carbon steel.

The Boker tree symbol has changed over the years so you may be able to match the tree symbol on the razor to the same design found here STRAZORS.com - all about classic razors - H.Boker & Co, Solingen. to find a time period.

Bob

Thanks Bob, great chart. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get a match, yet. Will do some more digging.

Originally Posted by Barbu

Thanks Bob, great chart. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get a match, yet. Will do some more digging.

Yea, I was never very good at matching the tree to any Boker I had either. All the Bokers I have shaved with have been very good though.

Bob

I have a similar chart to Bob's. My guess would be from 1891-1944.
+1 on what BobH said about all of his being good shavers. I have yet to find one that wasn't.

Originally Posted by jgeidson87

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My golden ticket to the boker brotherhood. Going to rescale it and send it off to hone. Picked it up for $20 today.

Oh man, that's a nice boker. Love that spine work and those scales.

Here's my Edelweiss
Nothing fancy
Just a fine shaver

Last addition for the family, just bought this one for $43 canadian, good deal ?

Here's my Boker:

5/8", front of the tang reads "H. Boker & Co." with the lone tree; the rear reads "Germany"; nice jimps on the thumb notch; the scales are not original (they were severely burned, so I tossed 'em... should've kept 'em, but what did I know 12 years ago?)


The grind is somewhere between a quarter- and a half-hollow, and at 5/8" it's nice and stiff, with no flexing.


I re-established the bevel this morning, then took it through 4K->8K->12K and stropping. I'll shave with it on Friday, and post a much nicer photo in the current SOTD thread.

Here's my Boker King Cutter that belonged to my wife's great-grandfather (b.1880-d.1964).

I have been shaving with it for the past month and am really enjoying shaving again! I'm even using the vintage strop after a bit of clean up.

I think it is about 100 years old.

A transcription of the instructions are also attached.

I found this one in a picker’s dream shop. Stuff piled everywhere, but the owner knew where everything was.

The razor was black with patina, but cleaned up easily with extra fine steelwool and Mothers. The edge was in remarkably good condition and produced a nice shave after some touching up on a coticule barber hone I got at the same time.

The chart Bob provided suggests mid 1920’s to mid 30’s. The etching on the blade is so far gone it’s hard to make out what was there. It looks like “Clean Cutter”, but that does not seem to be one that I can find Boker actually used.