Quote Originally Posted by Maximilian View Post
For starters you should always shave with a clean edge that's free of any nicks, cracks or chips, how tiny they may be. The risk of getting scarred for life is not worth it. The edge will always be the most important part of your straight razor.

The biggest challenge with that boker is that you'll need to grind away lots of steel, damaging the stabilizer. You'll also completely change the original grind. Even if you do safely succeed to grind it to a 4/8, be prepared to spend countless hours trying to get a decent shaving edge. Personally I'd skip, it's not worth the trouble but if you like a challenge nobody says you can't try.
Wut he said. This is not worthwhile to do by hand.