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  1. 03-19-2008, 07:49 PM #1
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    Default Böker = Wacker

    Hy guys,

    Can't belive what I've seen last Saturday on TV. I was watching a report on Kabel1 (german TV) abaout the Böker damascus Razor witch gets forged by Markus Balbach http://www.schmiede-balbach.de. The Razor steel is forged with a new tecnique and has 320 layers, but I think you allready now that. Nevertheless they showed how the razors get forged at Böker etc. But the guy who hones the new Böker razors was Heribert Wacker himself. I couldn't belive my eyes but the reporter said his name. So it doesn't realy matter if somebody buys a Wacker or a new Böker, because they get all honed by Heribert Wacker. The only difference could be in the steel quality.

    Did anybody know that, or am I the only one who is surprised?

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  2. 03-19-2008, 11:04 PM #2
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    No I had heard tha as well I had also heard some rumor the the new Boker was a relabeled Wacker but who knows what the truth really is?
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  3. 03-20-2008, 12:13 AM #3
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    Did the programme say "honed by" or "ground by"?

    The damascus link is interesting - I'm quite a bit more interested in the Boker damascus now (argh!)
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  4. 03-20-2008, 11:39 AM #4
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    I'm not too surprised. The new Bokers really looked a lot like Wacker razors, so it wasn't a big leap to imagine that Wacker might be working under some sort of contract for Boker (who haven't been making straights for a long time and therefor lack staff to do that sort of thing).
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  5. 03-20-2008, 12:37 PM #5
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    Moved this to the razors forum because that is the general discussion forum for razors.
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  6. 03-20-2008, 02:22 PM #6
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    But this is the razors review forum...
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