Heya gents and ladies ... My name is Donnie (32 y/o) from the mountains in Colorado and I'll be attempting my first SR shave soon!! Kinda stoked I have to admit. Always cool getting into a lost art. In my wait for my razor to get to me from Straight Razor Designs, I've been doing ALOT of reading/studying. (I dont want to run into this totally ignorant) I stumbled across the "straights NOT to buy" and thank goodness mine wasn't on there. I got a Dovo "black star". After some research it seemed a concensus that it was a decent blade. But on the wiki site nothing was said about it in detail (good, bad, ...)

I know probably 5 of these same topics come up a week, "Is my razor good?" ... and I appologize for the redundancy.

This seems like a great place to meet some fellow straight razor shavers and pique your brains for info. Thanks again and I'll let ya know how the 1st shave (of just the sideburns haha) goes.