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Ahhhh but what you don't understand is that a newly forged razor blank looks damn near like a razor. They run them through the double wheel setup and don't take anywhere near the metal off that you...

The problems usually occure in the hardening process. Many of the blades warp and some can be "popped" back to their original shape with a dead blow hammer hitting the blank on a leather pad. This...

Heribert Wacker is making the Boker razors right now. Judging by the new Wacker razors and the Boker.de film showing him making them by hand forging a blank - it seems that Boker invested in some...

Nope! sorry - they are still hand ground by craftsmen. They cost money and have to feed their family too. You are correct that the old american brands and Sheffield brands will give you just as...

Even when there were literally hundreds of small companies in addition to the "big dogs" making straight razors after WWII there were still only a few foundries and rht tool steel they all use was,...

Full hollow, extra hollow, 1/1 hollow ground it doesn't matter to a lot of us. As a matter of fact the tougher the beard the better it is to use a stiffer blade like a quarter hollow or a larger...

I have Boker King Cutter and Edelweiss razors on order. I will post them as soon as they arrive.