Wet shaver for years, but fairly new to using a straight.

As a Christmas gift, my wife bought me a Dovo Silver Steel Ebony. She bought it from some random place online so I promptly sent it off to SRD to be honed and ready to go. When it came back I left it sitting for a long time.

I've recently tried to shave with it and I swear, I can't do it. I don't know if it's my technique or what, but the blade seems to skip all over the place instead of gliding smoothly. If I use my old Torrey razor with a barber's notch, I have no issue at all.

I'm not sure what the grind of the Torrey is, but it's certainly not a full hollow like the Dovo. My beard's pretty thick and dense, and I'm wondering if the thicker razor is resulting in my better shaves. If so, I may have to eventually offload the Dovo.

Any suggestions or insight?