Thread: Wacker's

Originally Posted by RobinK

Those are very unique scales, Rob. Any road, that is a "Bismarck" blade, ie a Herkenrath forged 6/8 blank. Yours has a French point and whatever Schorkopf is in English, which looks very nice.

But some people have been attributing mythical shaving capabilities to the Wacker steel, and they simply don't exist. It's all in the grind, and yours looks just great.

I should call it the black knight I suppose.

Thank you for the compliments - however I can't find a translation for Schorkopf - please enlighten me.

Originally Posted by UKRob

I should call it the black knight I suppose.

Thank you for the compliments - however I can't find a translation for Schorkopf - please enlighten me.

It's the bevelled part of where the point and spine meet, if that makes any sense. I call a Schorkopf a "sculpted nose", which is not a literal translation but seems to cover it quite well. If you are comfortable with the nose of the razor being situated just above the toe and attached to the spine.

They often go together with a sculpted spine, and I am a huge fan. I like the idea of the Chevalier (a full hollow shoulderless grind with a sculpted spine and nose and a French point), although its aesthetics are slightly overstated, in my opinion. Friedrich Herder 25's have a similar geometry but are more conservatively executed, aesthetically the type of blade I find most attractive.

I can't speak to the quality of the Wacker Damascus. I'm a big fan of the new generic Wacker razors. I own four of them and rate them very highly when compared to other new model German made S.R.