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12-04-2020, 02:18 AM #1
How unrealistic would it be to try and restore this razor by myself?
I received this brand new Dovo razor for my birthday a few years ago. I should have immediately returned it but I did not realize in how bad of shape it was. The thing is essentially completely useless and always has been, I have only ever used it 2 or 3 times because it could barely cut hair at all. I tried honing it up myself on micron paper I had lying around, that didn't help either (my technique was probably really bad then, though.)
Here is a thorough imgur album of the blade itself.
Before you tell me to take it to a professional and that I'm wasting my time, I actually live down the street from the most well known sharpener in my entire city, I have taken it to him twice, but he does not specialize in straight razors and mainly does knives and tools, so he good take whatever edge it had and make it temporarily sharp, but could not actually get it in good working shape. So far I have not found anyone in my city who is good at this but I will continue to look.
In the mean time, I have a king 1000 stone and the popular norton 4k/8k stone. I tried just giving it a good edge myself carefully following a guide, and I do believe my technique is pretty decent, but the result was still that the razor cannot even cut arm hair roughly, it simply will not cut at all except for the heel of the blade and one small spot near the toe, the middle is worthless.
If I were study how to restore this using rolling x strokes by myself do you think I would have any chance of succeeding?