Thread: How to rehone a Stainless steel DOVO?

Hi,

this morning I unfortunately ruined the blade of my Lynn's honed DOVO.

I touched the border of the sink with the blade while rinsing the razor and now in the middle of the blade there is a little "M", I had to finish my shave with a DE.

Now, I need to re-hone the dovo, I'm not bound to get a perfect hone as Lynn did, but I'd love any suggestion from Lynn or any other experienced honer here.

As said the razor is a Stainless steel dovo, I was wondering if a progression like 5-5, 3-5,1-3,1-7 could be enough for this blade. (I'm using a norton 4000/8000).

Any help would be welcome

Bye

Bummer Diego,

Give the progression you mentioned a try and let us know. On the last two intead of the 1-3, try a 1-5 before the 1-7.

Good Luck.

Lynn

Great!

Thank you Lynn.

I'll go for 5-5, 3-5,1-5,1-7 so.

I'll be home in 3 or 4 hour and than I'll try. I'll let you know...

Originally Posted by dzacca

Great!

Thank you Lynn.

I'll go for 5-5, 3-5,1-5,1-7 so.

I'll be home in 3 or 4 hour and than I'll try. I'll let you know...

It is worth a try, and if Lynn says to go for it then go for it; however, from my experience I highly doubt that this will be enough to fix a damaged edge. Without seeing the razor I would say that you will have to re-establish a bevel (without damage) and polish it which can be a fair amount of work. Good luck.

and if/when that happens you could just repeat the pyramid again.

I just finished re-honing the dovo, I'm now unable to feel the damage running the blade edge over my nail. I also did a 60 pass on the strop, tomorrow morning I'll try to shave after a few more stropping, I'll let you know how it is.

heavydutysg135: The damage wasn't really that bad, but enough to slice my face if I'd continued shaving. Fortunately i just lightly touched the sink border. Well, tomorrow I'll know the truth... if my face won't be sliced I'd at least recovered the damage, but I doubt I'd been able to get a perfect honing as the one Lynn gave to my razor... sigh I'd just started to have good shaves without nicks and cuts...

Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it.
Remember, you're upwards on the learning curve.
It took me a couple of years, but now I'm having fun when I'm finished doing a standing hair test and for fun take out a little slice of a hair. Just scoop out a little part

Ok, just finished shaving.

The blade is recovered, and I have a smooth enough shave. I can feel, nevertheless, that the blade seems to glide less than before, I'd probably need to strop on linen, if only USPS wouldn't have lost my Tony's strops....

Well, I just gave other 50 passes on the leather strop and tomorrow I'l gave other 50 before shaving, I hope that could be enough to smooth the blade.

I'll let you know