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Originally Posted by manah

It's not only brand.
So.
Curt Hoppe - maker,
Carl Hoppe der Jungere - maker,
Eugen Hoppe - maker,
Julius Hoppe - maker,
Samuel Hoppe - maker,
Wilhelm Hoppe - maker, stamp "Guillermo Hoppe",
(Samuel and Wilhelm are from one family).
Hoppe & Cо, the owners were Ernst и Richard Hoppe, later and Auguste Hoppe.
Well-known company Giesen&Forsthoff "Timor", has trademark "German Hoppe".
These

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Originally Posted by Maxi

I took the W&B down into the hone-zone this afternoon, and pulled out the 8K. I did 5 regular X strokes, just plain water. Rinse. New water and wiped it off....10 damp stone strokes. Stropped on the SRD Premium III, 40-80.

The shave was equal in smoothness to the Dovo. The difference in the feel is now distilled to the fact that one is a 5/8 and one is a 7/8. The quality of the shaves is equal, comfortable, and oh yeah.....FUN!

Originally Posted by Maxi

JaNORTuary 7th, 2012.

Razor: W&B 7/8 full hollow

Back from the cottage, had a pile of razor stuff sitting at the door. I'll hone them tomorrow....I honed mine tonite.

I took the W&B back to the stones. I did a 1,3,5,3,1,1 pryramid on the 4/8 combo using 5 8k strokes after every number on the 4k side. Then I cleaned the stones, and did water only on the 8k side. Experiment time; 8 forward strokes, 5 back honing strokes, 2 forward strokes (similar to

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Originally Posted by Maxi

It went well. Dovo 5/8. I did two passes. Before the first pass, i did about 60 on webbing, 100 on leather. Between passes I did another 30 on leather.

The shave was pretty good. I had noticed on the final strokes of the last shave that it was just minutely scratchy, which led me to up my stropping count for this one. I felt fine with the razors edge throughout the shave.

I'll be back in the city with my hones and strops in a couple days, so I'll start tweaking the other

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Originally Posted by Maxi

JaNorton Shave #3 went very well. Dovo Best again (I didn't bring the WB to the cottage, b/c I would have needed to bring the stone too...)

Anyway. Nice and smooth, two passes. No discomfort or irritation.