Thread: Linder Solingen - any good?

Note that the company was mainly knifemakers. It would be interesting if the razor production has continued through the whole history, especially after the previous owners were lost in WWII.
Maybe it would be easiest to ask them who makes the blades and where.

Any company that puts woodland camo and powdercoating on a razor should be avoided like the plague IMO

- Though in saying that the Eikhorn KM military knives are great!

Originally Posted by EisenFaust

Any company that puts woodland camo and powdercoating on a razor should be avoided like the plague IMO

+1

Not to mention the blade etch...ooo....RAZOLUTION. I don't know, I think these razors are marketed to mall ninjas

They may have a good history, but that doesn't mean they are still good razors. It is entirely possible that they and their trademark have been bought out by another company and the products have gone downhill. If I'm not mistaken, this happend with Puma. (It also happened with Colibri lighters - I'd only by the old made in Japan ones.)

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

They may have a good history, but that doesn't mean they are still good razors. It is entirely possible that they and their trademark have been bought out by another company and the products have gone downhill. If I'm not mistaken, this happend with Puma. (It also happened with Colibri lighters - I'd only by the old made in Japan ones.)

Just like Comoy razors.

These razors are all over German ebay. All I know is the company recently started making them but I don't think that they are made by Linder they may be a small off shoot company, there is a company called Simbatec I think that these guys are the ones that make those razors anyway these guys make stuff like knives, handcuffs and police type stuff.http://http://www.simbatec.de/catalo...x.php?cPath=71 If you go there you will see an old initial logo GmbH&Co.KG. If they were an old razor Co. I don't think so.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

As far as I know, the only current production razors from Germany are Dovo, Revisor, Boker, and Henckels.

I'm curious, but skeptical.

What about Wacker?

Found this while searching ebay.. New Straight Razor Solingen,Germany; Giesen & Forsthoff - eBay (item 120556685876 end time May-13-10 21:56:28 PDT)

looks like they are saying the manufacturer is Giesen & Forsthoff instead of Linder but is still has the same Razolution tag on it.

Originally Posted by Troggie

Found this while searching ebay.. New Straight Razor Solingen,Germany; Giesen & Forsthoff - eBay (item 120556685876 end time May-13-10 21:56:28 PDT)

looks like they are saying the manufacturer is Giesen & Forsthoff instead of Linder but is still has the same Razolution tag on it.

that auction = Yuk. And BFS? too cool for BBS? ;-)

Always take ebay ads with a pinch of salt unless you know the seller. Some sellers see nothing wrong in fradulent claims.

G&F's website doesn't know razolution. Simbatec does sell them as razolutions. I don't know if they are rebrands or actual own production.