Thread: Mintyishy Boker

Ok, I'll be the first to admit I have no idea what qualifies as minty, but if it's got a mirror finish, any paint in the hollow is still good, and there are no cracks or pits and the scales work nice, with little to no sign of wear I'll call it minty, or cinnamony, or caviary.

Here we have a nice H Boker spike/squaretip razor that measures 9/16 pre honed. It was made for the wright and wilhelmy co in omaha nebraska with "XXX clean clipper special" painted in the hollow with an arrow going through it.

When I got it there was a bit of a smudge that looked like someone tried to shave with it and didn't clean it completely right above the cutting edge on each side in the same center spot. I carefully buffed it out by hand best I could, cleaned the dust out of the crevices and between the scales, buffed the other side of the blade by hand with maas and then honed it up, stropped it & shaved the F.I.L. as a tester since I just shaved this morning. and then wiped it down and took the pics. you can check the index of www.procis.net/Razors/boker if you want to browse larger pics.

It seemed to shave quite well. The F.I.L. says there was no pull and it was a very relaxing shaving experience. I'll give it a rest and try it myself on a sink shave day after tomorrow.

Grand total for this razor $4.50 plus very little elbow grease. the box is in really good condition too. The gold lettering is faded some but that's about it.











Glen F

Very nice Glen, good job there that's for sure.

I have a few to attempt this weekend also got some real crap in a bunch of 6.
2 of them might come up OK.

Gary

Glen, that one definitely qualifies as MINTY. I like the results. It is a job well done.

Lovely piece, Glen! It's only inspiring me to get even MORE lol.

Love it, Glen. Simple with a bit of flash. Nice.

Mike

As you all know, I'm a little more stingy with anything having the word MINT in it... but I gotta allow you 8 out of 10 on the new word that you came up with.

It's a dandy razor, however. Dandy is good.

Yup. Super! four and a half bucks you say. That's a steal. I'm calllin' a cop!

X

Very nice and quite the steal

Thanks all for the responses and compliments. I'm glad to know I got a good deal.

I shaved with it today. Sink shave since my whiskers aren't as soft usually. My routine is to wet my face and wash it with glycerin soap, while it's dripping wet I'll strop the razor. I did 30 per side linen and 50 per side leather. Then I lathered up with the Van Der Hagen from Walgreens.

I was really pleased with how smooth the shave was. I keept a close 20 degree angle or so and it slid right over my face, zero pull, snipping those whiskers off like . . . . Well like a very sharp razor . I didn't even have to do a 2nd pass. I'm getting excited. I think I've gotten better at my honing skills.

I'm going to try to talk Lynn into giving it a test run so he can give me his opinion on my honing skills.

Van Der Hagen cup soap from Walgreens, Man this soap is really nice, it lathered up really nicely in the scuttle, the soap maintained moisture for a good amount of time. I was able to carefully and slowly shave.