Thread: Trouble getting started

Hey Jan, welcome to the forum.
I would suggest sending a PM to Dimitry, he also lives in Belgium and took a look at my Dovo and honed it.
The sound and the unpleasant shave are probably a combination of a non shave ready blade and shaving technique. All I can say is, send the razor to someone from the forum, who knows what he's doing and practice, practice, practice.
What Hart says about the lathering in sections is something I do as well. At the moment, this works best for me.

So my suggestion is: send a PM to Dimitry so he can check them and hone if needed.
And when you get them back, take some time to learn how to use them. I'm also fairly new to this and the one thing I learned, if you want to go to fast, your technique won't be good. Then you have 2 options, taking a few steps back and starting from zero or having bad shaves that result in quitting SR shaving.