Thread: How can I prevent my truing stone from chewing up my high grit stones?

My first razor was a Dovo Astrail, Paul at Classic Edge honed it before he sent it, nothing else was done and it was new.

I must have been lucky because i have refreshed it, even killed the edge and started from bevel setting once which was scary because it was my best razor.

Anyway it hones fine and shaves fine, its a lot sharper now i have improved and over the years it will get better and better but like i say, I've had no trouble with it

I did cut myself last week with it, i was wielding it with wild abandon and i poked my face, the opposite side to wear i was shaving, i almost laughed but it was too annoying.

Originally Posted by STF

My first razor was a Dovo Astrail, Paul at Classic Edge honed it before he sent it, nothing else was done and it was new.

I must have been lucky because i have refreshed it, even killed the edge and started from bevel setting once which was scary because it was my best razor.

Anyway it hones fine and shaves fine, its a lot sharper now i have improved and over the years it will get better and better but like i say, I've had no trouble with it

I did cut myself last week with it, i was wielding it with wild abandon and i poked my face, the opposite side to wear i was shaving, i almost laughed but it was too annoying.

I guess it's more of a quality control issue, mine shouldn't be in circulation at all. Yours looks about right. Just look at the bevel and the spine of mine, you can already see how much trouble I had with it. The spine came round and well polished, anywhere flat was caused by me trying to fix it. And what clearly visible in the picture is just about a third of the actual size, the rest of it hidden in the shadow.

Put the geometry issue aside, it delivers superb shave after I got it shave ready. But it's a painful process to hone it that I don't want to go through again.