I started with a shavette (with de blades). When my real straight, a dovo, arrived pre-honed from Vintage Blades it felt dull compared to the shavette. Now, a month later, I get better shaves with the dovo than I was getting with the shavette and I have stopped nicking myself. With the shavette it was super easy to draw a little blood. Using it sure taught me to have a light touch.

I soon realised the dovo was not 'dull'. It probably wasn't as sharp as a de blade, but mainly it just feels different. For one thing, it's about twice as long as the de blade, so at any given moment you're trying to slice through twice as many hairs.