Thread: Shave ready?

I miss one thing...
The broken seal gives vendors a great chance of selling second hand razors (refurbished imho).
Maybe i'm a way to big of a pessimist. And i'm sure there are truly honest vendors out there but i'm not naive either.
That's why i buy new... I shave what that shave ready razor and when it gets dull than i send it out to be honed by an expert.

A new DOVO is shave ready... You can shave with it... It's pretty good but not fantastic.
To experience that fantastic feel and to be able to shave WTG-XTG and ATG you must hone your razor.

Believe it or not, the entire straight razor world does not revolve around what we say or do on this forum (more's the pity). What we call "shave ready" is an SRP term - it is not a universally accepted unit of measurement, nor is it a legally-defined term.

So it is entirely conceivable that a vendor might consider the factory edge from Dovo "shave ready", and they would in fact not be wrong. I've shaved off a factory Dovo edge, more than once, and did actually get a shave.

James.

Jimbo:
It's the insightful comments like this that earn you the respect you so richly deserve.