Thread: My Stropping Tipss

Originally Posted by driver/examiner

Thanks for the info. I am really having a bad time getting the razor shave ready.
I have watched Lynn's video and have tried to understand about preperation and have tried that also. STILL DULL.....

Did you have your new razors honed by anyone?

My first big mistake was purchasing a "shave ready" razor from Premium Knives, which only had the factory grind and had never been honed. No amount of stropping will make such a razor shave.

The Dovo factory claims their razors are shave ready but they are not. All new razors must be honed before they can be stropped and shaved with.

Originally Posted by toolarts

The Dovo factory claims their razors are shave ready but they are not. All new razors must be honed before they can be stropped and shaved with.

Toolarts,
Great thread, but I wanted to report that my experiences with Dovo razors are different. I 've first hand experience with four Dovos purchased between October 2007 and present. All four shaved well right out of the sealed box. I've heard a few others with similar experiences. I've honed three of them, and they all had an unusual bevel, as if they were honed with tape on the spine, a condition that took a bit of extra work when it became time for a first honing job.
Maybe me and my straight shaving friends were just lucky. Maybe the store where we bought those razors has a nasty reputation and they dare not else at Dovo than to supply that store with shaveready razors. Maybe everybody else is presuming that they are going to be dull and don't even bother with trying first. I don't know.

If money is not an issue I can understand that a newby would not take chances and choose the "prehoned by a honemeister" option, if available at the store of choice. But to say that all new Dovos need honing right out of the box, is an overstatement.

Great stropping tips, by the way. The warming up tip is new to me. I usually rub the palm of my hand over the strop once, to make sure there's no weird grit on there. I'm gonna try rubbing it some more and see what it does for me.

Thanks for sharing,

Bart.

Appreciate the tips. There are some things that I had not heard of before. Very interesting.