I had my first shave with the new Dovo. Much better but not quite what I want or can imagine it can be. Nicked myself only two times which is a record and no horrible razor burn afterwards. WTG pass was pretty ok besides my poor technique, but the blade is still not sharp enough to shave comfortably agains the grain. The blade stops way too easily since it does not cut the hair good enough.

The dovo was not shave ready out-of-the-box so I honed it a little on the 12k, stropped it with cox on balsa and finally on leather paddle. I guess my stropping technique (or the leather strop) is not good since the last step seemed take the edge away. I re-did the honing and stropped it much more carefully. TPT seemed ok, but didn't pass the HHT test at all so I know there is room for improvement. Any suggestions? Should I go back to the 6k to hone or what? Also when I was stropping on the leather I didn't notice any draw.