Proper Honing technique for my new Olive wood Dovo SS request
Greetings all, I am new to the straight razor as of a few weeks ago.
I have purchased two shavers the first a Dovo Olive wood Stainless that did not come shave ready. Once I used it a couple of times I realized from the forums that the cuts and lack of performance I was getting was due to the fact that it was not shave ready. Since then I purchased a Classic Black Dovo which I bought shave ready (by Lynn) and have had much better success.
In am interested to get the SS ready and have purchased a 4k/8k combo Norton and a Spyderco Ultrafine finishing stone. I am still waiting for the latter to arrive via UPS. There seems to be some grey areas as to how to and number of strokes necessary to get the blade to pass the HHT. Can anyone chime in on a proper technique for doing such.
Much appreciated,
Purvis.