Thread: Found an unusual Helje B K 42...

Originally Posted by mrbhagwan

I have that same razor

and and

Here I thought I was special . I was thinking France also, since Helje used to export a lot of razors to them and had good relations in general with France... I´ll let you know if I find anything, I´ve asked a specialist for help. If he can´t help, I´m afraid we´re on our own on this one. But I think you´re prob. close.

Otto: let me refrase that: most of my Heljes are smaller, but it seems like most here have 6/8 or larger though - lucky bastards

Originally Posted by mrbhagwan

... but I didn't get as lucky as you did with ivory scales.

Well, you do have a nicer blade though, very good stamping. And are you sure those aren´t ivory?

Originally Posted by Mikael

Well, you do have a nicer blade though, very good stamping. And are you sure those aren´t ivory?

I agree the stamp is very clean and deep. The pictures I show don't show it well enough, but in hand, it's pretty clear that my scales are the yellowish plastic imitation ivory variety.

I just buffed my blade out a little bit with some Mother's Aluminum polish. It looked similar to yours when I got it from ebay. The best part is the shave is sweeeeet!

By the way, I think there is yet another SRP-er out there with a BK blade. I think he posted it in the shave of the day forum some time ago. Maybe he'll see this thread too!

Originally Posted by mrbhagwan

I agree the stamp is very clean and deep. The pictures I show don't show it well enough, but in hand, it's pretty clear that my scales are the yellowish plastic imitation ivory variety.

I just buffed my blade out a little bit with some Mother's Aluminum polish. It looked similar to yours when I got it from ebay. The best part is the shave is sweeeeet!

By the way, I think there is yet another SRP-er out there with a BK blade. I think he posted it in the shave of the day forum some time ago. Maybe he'll see this thread too!

Yeah, we can start a club of our own, the B K Helje club

I haven´t done anything, well I just cleaned her up a little and used Baliistol for it, but that was after the pics where taken. I´ll use her tomorrow and post in SOTD (even though the pic I took tonight was crap.

I got an answear from the guy I asked and he said he has only seen it on french market Heljes, but then with some kind of "made in France" but in the french. So, the hunt for an answear keeps on ...