Thread: Hello and help.

It seems that with Dovo razors it's just down to luck. None of them are professionally honed, unless the seller says otherwise, but sometimes the factory sharpening is ok, and other times it's crap (I bought a Dovo Flowing which shaved fine right out the box...or maybe that was just my ignorance).

The likelihood is that you'll need to get it properly honed but there are a number of good guys over here that you can send it to, for not too much money—The Invisible Edge, Neil Miller, Tony Holmes at Taylors 1000 (don't actually know if he has a honing service but he's done a couple of blades that I bought from him and they shaved very well...at least until I chipped one of them ).

It does start to over-complicate things a bit, but it's well worth the time and effort to start out properly.