Thread: My new dovo is dying. I must be doing something wrong.

I really appreciate that offer gugi, but I wouldn't want you to go pro bono. I'd be willing to pay the standard honing fee.

Sorry, can't do that I don't do pro honing, just trying to help here and there as I have the time. I've gotten plenty of help myself when I've needed it, and sooner or later you'll help somebody else. That's the point of having this whole community
Of course there is plenty of need for professional services too, and we have those, but that's just not for me.

Just drop me a PM if you decide to go this route and I'll send you my address. Mail takes about 2-3 days each way and I'd budget 3-4 days with me so that I can check what happens to the edge after 2 shaves (I don't shave every day), so it should be about week and a half to two weeks.
But you'd get much much more out of a hands on interaction if you can arrange that, so that'd certainly be the better option. I don't really know who's in socal, may be put in your location in your profile so that other members can see if they're nearby.

Ok, I have a solution. I just ordered a razor out of the SRP classifieds. As soon as it gets here I'm going to ship my Dovo off to Lynn. I figure I should have it redone correctly by the Hattori Hanzō of straight razors. Before I ship it out I will take pictures and post them here so you guys can critique the Ross hone/grind.

Good info John. I was actually at Ross' last weekend and was going to drop off my Dovo astrale that was in need of a honing. I think I'm going to investigate other options in terms of pro honing.

im no sharpening expert, but i know anyting with the word grind in it means moving wheel, and a lot of metal coming off, ive sharpened quite a few hatchets on grinding wheels but id never touch a razor to it unless i really dispised the guy that owned it.

I guess you just have a beard that consists of titanium wire John...!

I can't see that your stropping is responsible for actually chipping your dovo. The only thing that will likely happen with incorrect stropping, is that you will dull your blade, and worst-case possibly be rolling the edge of the razor ever so slightly.

Any visible chipping that you can see with the naked eye really can not be from stropping. It can only be a fudged-up honing job in my opinion, or maybe you have a 1 in 1000+ defective Dovo, but that is quite unlikely.

The only weird thing is that you actually are able to shave with it comfortably! Personally, any minute chips in an edge really leaves my skin pretty tender, even chips that I can only see under the microscope.

Ask the gardener not to trim the roses with your straight razor any more.

OK, time for pics. This is the current state of my razor.

And yes, I have a titanium beard of epic manliness.

Is it just my eyes, or does the last 1/3rd towards the tip of your blade look really Fudged up, and in real need of a low grit hone to re-set the bevel properly....?

It may just be the way the photos are taken, but there appears to be some real chips visible with the naked eye....that is pretty much impossible to be done by incorrect stropping, it really looks like a bad honing job to me, but my eyes could be deceiving me.

With those photos, I can't see the bevel, much less any chips.

Originally Posted by Utopian

With those photos, I can't see the bevel, much less any chips.

You're right, it's not very clear in these photos, but this is what I am looking at. As I said, could be just the photos.





Any chance for some better photos of just the bevel of the blade?