Thread: Wacker Jungmeister

Originally Posted by Muirtach

So the current Wackers are being ground out of old blanks. I have also seen that the name has been in razors for a few generations. Do we know if the current ones are using new names or retouching on old ones? Say for example that the Jungmeister I have seen is from his father's era and the current ones are just keeping the naming tradition going.

Conjecture on my part of course.

Jungmeister is one of Heribert Wackers family brands. Sometimes when he locates a blank or group of blanks from companies whose trademark is now public domain he will grind and decorate them and with others like Bartmann and Dorko he has permission of the trademark owners to make their brand razors. There are a lot of new blanks being forged in Solingen now because the supply of old blanks has diminished significantly.