Thread: Brand new Boker razor, terrible?

Most are ground with a double hollow, as is this one. There is a hollow below the spine, then a widened area called the belly that provides strength to the blade, and then the second hollow that runs from the belly to the edge.

I went and looked at the ad for your razor and it looks like what you got to me. Now I can't see the full heel in your pics but it does look like it's going the right way. As for the edge I see 1 side has a nice thin bevel and the other looks like the bevel is fat in the middle. Maybe the light , maybe the problem. As for the grind the ad says hollow, but not "How hollow" .
I have and had some older Bokers and they are all nice razors.
The popular opinion is the older the better with any production razor. Just saying. I never had a new razor except NOS vintage.

Keep it off the stones and contact the vendor if you not happy with it. I have never had to return much but when I did my vendors always send me a replacement with return shipping label and a note. If you don't like either please send them both back with the supplied label.

I packed her all up, have to wait till I can call them tomorrow to get an RMA number. I would take another pic and show you but don't want to un pack all of that. The heel in the pic is all nice and pretty rounded, mine is flat and square. Some google pics do show it both ways though.
I guess I will have to chuck this up to "another bran new item that turned out horrible"
I am known for receiving things like this. It is like a curse of mine.

Gonna have to change your karma man :<0)

Originally Posted by glytch5

I bought it from knifeworks.com
I enjoy honing my own razors so I rarely buy from places like SRD who hone them for you, it takes the fun out of it for me, and normally this would be a nice challenge, but one side of this thing sits very awkwardly on the hone. It rocks forward and back. The edge is twisted and bent. I realize that spines are rarely straight, but this is kinda bad.
Every dovo I have bought out of the box came with a decent factory sealed edge on it, so I can't say I agree with you that razors do not come honed from the factory, can't agree at all! I have a video showing one with a great edge I got from this same vendor.
If you look up google images of this particular razor, the heel doesn't look right on mine at all, its squared, the pics show it more rounded. ARGH! you pay your hard earned money for something, then have to wait for it to arrive, just to pay return shipping and wait for it to go back... very irritating.
I'm ganna have to return it I guess, just super disappointing! this happens to me way too often with products! Thanks dudes.

From what I've been hearing, Boker has been having the worst quality-controll issues.

figures... I typed into google many times "should I buy a boker razor" haha. I know a lot of people like the modern ones, and they have some interesting razors! I was getting bored with dovo 5/8 half hallows, thats 80 percent of their stuff. Boker also claims to have all these hand made steps. It is scary how bad this thing came out. I try to keep low expectations on things I am not familiar with, but this goes much lower than I was prepared for!

I have a Boker Damascus I bought new a few years ago. It's not vintage, pretty new and it's an A-1 shaver and came shave ready.

I would,nt let it put you off all my new bokers including tree brand are nice. I think you was just unlucky . I prefer them to Dovo.

Good luck with your exchange

Stick to vintage razors.

What johnmrson said +
I recently bought a TI Special Coiffeur and had the devil's own job of correcting a bad grind - I should have sent it back. There's no excuse when you buy a new razor - it should be right (or nearly right) from the word go and not require hours on the hones.