Yes, they come with the wedge. These black plastic scales are just pinned, so the two halves can still rotate w.r.t. one another (which makes stacking the scale, washer, blade, washer, scale stack much less fiddly.
The Ralf Aust horn scales are glued to the wedge, so that degree of freedom isn’t available during assembly.
S.S. Paris Wins Again
I had a day off today, and I finally found the time to fix my vintage Böker with the broken scales.
Luck would have it that modern Ralf Aust scales have almost exactly the same size and shape as the broken, original Böker ones.
The scales swap went without hiccup and the razor even closes almost perfectly centre 😊
I’m really glad that this beautiful razor is back to being useful and the B3 and The Fat worked like a charm and gave me a fantastic lather and shave.
Nice! Do the Aust scales come with a wedge? It does not appear that you used the old wedge.
Yes, they come with the wedge. These black plastic scales are just pinned, so the two halves can still rotate w.r.t. one another (which makes stacking the scale, washer, blade, washer, scale stack much less fiddly.
The Ralf Aust horn scales are glued to the wedge, so that degree of freedom isn’t available during assembly.