Thread: I've gone a bit overboard

don't tell her.

although I am finding it somewhat hard to hide my addiction - I've got all sorts of soap and cream and aftershave and all the rest of the accoutrements that go along with it spread out across the double vanity. honest? it, uh, kind of looks like a girl's vanity. i gotta come up with a better storage solution...

It really helps if your wife likes the razors you buy. Mine like this razor:

Vintage Straight Razors : Dubl Duck : Wonderedge - 39/64 - 1/4 Hollow : Blue Paua LVS

So I ordered one!!! Happy Birthday to ME!!!!

Just won another dubl duck pearl duck.

As long as your beard keeps growing, everything will be OK.<g>

If it stops, and you have an urge to shave your legs instead of your face -- then you'll have something to worry about.

Charles

I gotta stop until I actually get to shave with something besides my dovo. Of the razor's I have listed...anyone have a recommendation one which one to try and hone first?

The Henkals, 1 of the bokers, the dovo, the rogers, and the J.R Torrey are shave ready (or will be soon by a pro).

Should I try a boker or a dubl duck?

I just won another boker. sigh.

Instead of buying a hone...I've decided that I will turn my current strop from dovo into a pasted strop. It's really short and only about 1.5 wide. I just ordered a 3" leather/webbed strop from SRD.

I received a paste with the kit I got from dovo. Any suggestions for turning the dovo strop into a pasted strop??

Originally Posted by jcsixx

I gotta stop until I actually get to shave with something besides my dovo. Of the razor's I have listed...anyone have a recommendation one which one to try and hone first?

The Henkals, 1 of the bokers, the dovo, the rogers, and the J.R Torrey are shave ready (or will be soon by a pro).

Should I try a boker or a dubl duck?

I would learn on a razor that is a bit cheaper.

There's some material about pasted strops in the Wiki. I believe it includes a list of the Dovo pastes and their equivalent grits.

Which Dovo paste do you have?

IMHO (based on my experience with one cloth pasted strop), I'd use balsa or hardwood for a pasted strop, rather than cloth or leather. The flexible pasted strops will give you a perfectly polished edge, but it will be at a different angle that the main bevel. A wood strop will have less "give", and should round the edge less.

You could try putting some of the Dovo paste -- not too much! -- on a piece of veneered plywood (birch veneer should work fine), and see how it works. [I'm one experiment behind you on this.]

Should I try a boker or a dubl duck?

How are we supposed to know the answer ????

Charles

Originally Posted by jcsixx

Instead of buying a hone...I've decided that I will turn my current strop from dovo into a pasted strop. It's really short and only about 1.5 wide. I just ordered a 3" leather/webbed strop from SRD.

I received a paste with the kit I got from dovo. Any suggestions for turning the dovo strop into a pasted strop??

I've had some good luck with adhering the leather with contact cement to a 6x6 ceramic floor tile. I can actually get two strips on each one so I have one tile with two different compounds on the leather and all you have to do is flop around the tile to switch sides. It seems to give it a solid base like you might see with a balsa wood version, but I personally prefer the feel of the leather.