Thread: Spanish Points?

Well, let me post a picture of the one in mind.


115.00 Euros including the VAT, so for selling to USA, they deduct the VAT, and shipping is 9.00 Euros, so might not be a bad overall price. And, yes, I agree with Joe, that price does not determine shave. I have the Imperial 'EXTRA HOLLOW GROUND" on the blade and it was a trade for a bottle of wine, and didn't cost me extra to have it shipped to me. Then, I have the "Gold BUG" made by A. Witte- Germany that I bought at an antique store for 7.00 and it provides a great shave.

Heribert Wacker is ..what, 85 years old? Been making razors, hand made for 53+ years, starting out his apprenticeship at DORKO, then also worked at Puma then at DOVO for a number of years. Because of his age, if he passes away, the cost of his razors will be more expensive to purchase then. Do I need a Wacker? Not really. I mean, my GOTTA 120 Superfine and Revisors and DOVO are excellent life time shavers. It's just if I want to buy a Wacker in later years after his passing, I might look back at this time and say.. "should have"..

I can get along with a spike, as my Geo. Wostenholm & Sons, (2ea), the XLNT Wadsworth & Sons, plus a few others are spike points. Just that they have usually been the ones to give me ear nicks and have to "toilet paper" the ear a bit. But, that hasn't happened for some time. I do like them for getting the upper lip whiskers around the nose, and as Glen pointed out, for anyone that has to trim around existing beards, they probably excel in that regards.

I hate to mention this, but my ear lobes have both advised me that they're going to be filing for divorce if I don't tame my square and spike points just a tad. In fact, my right ear lobe informed me that this could be done very delicately without deforming the razor. The left ear lobe said this wasn't really necessary, but he didn't get nailed like the right ear lobe did, so what does he know?

I have a Spanish Point Wacker, and I think it is my best razor. The point on it is not spiked. and I love the shave it gives. You are mking a wise choice.

PMFJI --

What exactly is a "Spanish point" ? I've been looking at photos of razors, and most "Spanish Point" examples have a squared-off end, with a fairly large radius between the (dull) end and the (sharp) toe of the blade.

So I'd call them "muted square points" -- with a substantial mute.

Is there a "standard" for "Spanish point" ?

Thanks --

Charles

Doesn't look too bad for a point. I can try it for a while and see how it works. If it gives me fits, it can alway be rounded. Not the first time I have put a round point on a square point razor. My AK-SAR-Ben was a square point and after I took out the nick in the front, I made it into a wonderful shaver with a round point.

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And the Wacker razor pictured above would look something like this after about 30 minutes of work....

Do you mind sharing the website info for getting the Wackers directly? I am interested in looking at Wackers.

Thanks.

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If you don't read German well, then copy the link that Birnado provided, go to Google.com go to their language tools on the right side, and paste that link into the translate web page German to English and will give you "some" idea of what is being written. It's a literal translation, and as such, does not gramatically correct the sentence structure, but will be useful, nonetheless.

For a direct Google translation, I came up with:

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It shows everything in English translation.

Thanks for the help. What a great bunch of razors.

DLB, if you like the pics of razors, look at this link for a video of Heribert Wacker (and Boker) making some razors. Some are made the old fashioned way, by heating and ounding out layers of steel. link: http://www.boker.de/videos/damastrasiermesser.wmv for downloading. BTW it's all in German for those that understand it's great!