Thread: Trouble with my SR

So i received my dovo 5/8 in the mail today and was shaving the left side of my face, shaved fine. Got to my chin where the hair is thicker (not a full grown beard, havent shaved for only two weeks ish) and my blade started pulling, so i being the noobie scrub i am, honed the blade, but instead of the correct way of honing, i honed the blade vertical on the edge of my water stone. Now i have tried honing the blade the correct way and stropping over and over and i cant seem to get it to get sharp enough to shave again. There is no noticeable damage on the blade and from what i can see the edge is still straight. Any suggestions?

Send it to a professional honer to get it fixed would be my suggestion. Dovo's don't come from the factory in a shave ready state so the razor was probably not shave ready to start out with (assuming you bought it new).

That makes sense, seeing as how i shaved my face for about 5 min then it went dull. So when i send this thing out and receive it back, what do you recommend i do to maintain the edge? Should i re hone and strop or just strop it and go?

Definitely don't hone it.For the first shave, you shouldn't even have to strop it. Just lather and shave.

Thanks a bunch to both of you guys. Im so pumped to be apart of this community!

Originally Posted by awp1988

That makes sense, seeing as how i shaved my face for about 5 min then it went dull. So when i send this thing out and receive it back, what do you recommend i do to maintain the edge? Should i re hone and strop or just strop it and go?

Just strop on leather for maintenance.
When the razor start to get duller after some time you can add CrO or diamond spray to a bench strop or to fabric component of a hanging strop and use that to bring the edge back.
That should keep you going for a while.

Hiya,

Best advice is to get it honed by a professional and strop carefully to maintain making sure not to roll the edge. Honing a razor is a very slippery slope, the amount of fineness involved is ridiculous. Honing a razor has less tolerances and is a very different feeling to honing other blades so just keep this in mind. You will also need perfectly flat hones as other blades tend to cup the hone, most go with synthetics at 1, 4 & 8,000 grits to start. Get a dud razor from Ebay to practice on however, I'd suggest doing a lot of research on youtube and the honing forum to decide if it is the way you want to go. Refreshing a razor with different cutting agents is a good way to start, usually using diamond spray or chromium/iron oxide, put these on balsa or some other flat surface to get a hone like feel and develop muscle memory with the actions. Most of all remember, start lightly and then if you do not get an edge use a bit more force or move down a grit on the hone.