Thread: New guy from WA state

Originally Posted by eddy79

... and I'm in the wrong WA

Ha. Good one.

Man, my first mistake was thinking this Dovo "Best Quality" (slightly overstated) would be a simply honing task. Unfortunately, the heel width was a bit less than the rest of the blade. Standard x-strokes were not affecting the heel properly. Time to bust out the rolling x-stroke! So much for a 30-minute hone (try dubl). I was pleased to see that rough factory edge long gone by the time I finished on the SG20k.

After meeting Alex and handing him his blade and a sample of XPEC (thanks, @tcrideshd!), we quickly covered a few topics, especially the YMMV principle. E.g., gripping the razor, how often blades require honing, etc. Picture Bluto from Popeye (or, Fred Flintstone) to get an idea of this guy's beard density (2 shaves per disposable he told me). He may need honing more than your average shaver is my guess.

I am excited to hear how his first shave goes. He has been killing disposable razors for far too long.

Originally Posted by Speedster

I just responded to his PM and clarified this honing would be totally free of charge — heck, honing is fun (well, ‘til it isn’t but that’s a wholly ugly tangent).

Never fails does it my friend

Originally Posted by Speedster

Man, my first mistake was thinking this Dovo "Best Quality" (slightly overstated) would be a simply honing task. Unfortunately, the heel width was a bit less than the rest of the blade. Standard x-strokes were not affecting the heel properly. Time to bust out the rolling x-stroke! So much for a 30-minute hone (try dubl). I was pleased to see that rough factory edge long gone by the time I finished on the SG20k.

After meeting Alex and handing him his blade and a sample of XPEC (thanks, @tcrideshd!), we quickly covered a few topics, especially the YMMV principle. E.g., gripping the razor, how often blades require honing, etc. Picture Bluto from Popeye (or, Fred Flintstone) to get an idea of this guy's beard density (2 shaves per disposable he told me). He may need honing more than your average shaver is my guess.

I am excited to hear how his first shave goes. He has been killing disposable razors for far too long.

Perhaps something more in a quarter grind would be of some benefit for his 'Beard of Brillo'

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Perhaps something more in a quarter grind would be of some benefit for his 'Beard of Brillo'

Exactly my thought! Will save him the trouble of using foam earplugs to drown out the singing hollow blade.

Originally Posted by Speedster

Exactly my thought! Will save him the trouble of using foam earplugs to drown out the singing hollow blade.

Don't you mean 'Crying' OR 'Screaming' blade?

Thankyou Dieseld for the Library link, that is extremely helpful, lots of great info there...

Originally Posted by Dieseld

Welcome to SRP!!!!







Looks like you're pretty well on your way.
Check out the LIBRARY a lot of great stuff in there.

Most of all, enjoy and have fun!!!

You guys are hilarious, this is already more enjoyable than I thought and I haven't even touched finely honed (thanks Speedster, sorry about the wonky labor intensive bevel) blade to the brillo pad on my face yet.

Originally Posted by terriblegolfer

You guys are hilarious, this is already more enjoyable than I thought and I haven't even touched finely honed (thanks Speedster, sorry about the wonky labor intensive bevel) blade to the brillo pad on my face yet.

Yes--unbeknownst to some--we like to have a little fun around here. And usually at someone else's expense!

1/4 or full wedge....couldn't agree more.

I haven't come across a new Dovo, that doesn't have issue's. All seem to be stabilizer problems, so I wasn't surprised to read your post. Once past that, they hone up real nice.!

This has been a funny intro thread for sure. Glad you got your blade successfully honed. It illustrates one of the hurdles of honing though. Even a pretty new razor isn't necessarily a straight forward honing job.