Got my Dovo special for about a week ago, it should been pro honed, and sharp enough to cut beard. But its not, it dont cut at the end. But near, where the grep is its sharp and cut. With other word, its not razor sharp all the way. I have used the strop, maybe 50-60 times, and its still not sharp from half the blade and to the tip.
Idears?
Didb you have your first shave without stropping? If yes how it was going?
I know from my own not old expirence how easy is to dull the blade with a wrong stropping
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Originally Posted by mojka
I cant remember that. Maybe...
You think it is possble to strop it sharp again? If its because of me.
My own was honed by Steven from the invisible edge- I made it dull with 3 stroppings- after tiny touch up with stone it is great now.
I started to use straight not long time ago, still remember plenty of novice mistakes, wrong stropping was the first.
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Originally Posted by mojka
what stone did you use?
Naiwa 10k and 12k after that
Try to improve stropping- there are great videos available, post important ( from my own mistakes) is to keep the strop tight, razor flatt, no rush, no pressure
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Originally Posted by mojka
can you please send me a link to those stones?
www.theinvisibleedge.co.uk
but you can use other as well.
Remember about good beard prep and correct technique- all information are to be found in the forum
If your razor is dull, a strop will not resharpen it, you will have to send it out to a vendor or someone in the classifieds to make it shave ready.
If I'm reading this correctly, from the heel to the middle of the blade it is shave ready, and the tip is dull, it sounds like bad stropping to me. Here is the wiki on stropping. Razor stropping - Straight Razor Place Wiki No pressure only the weight of the blade, and make sure the entire blade is touch the strop at all times. I found stropping slowly at first isn't a bad Idea but you would want to gradually pick up speed as your muscle memory improves.
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Than you mate for confirming of my opinion.
My Dovo Special, despite advertized as "pre-sharpened", was nowhere near shave ready when I get it. I tried stroping it first with no success then had it professional honed and it now shaves great.
If I am reading this correctly I am not seeing that this Dovo has anything but a factory edge on it either...Which we all know is not really shave ready unless you are the luckiest person around and should go buy a lottery ticket too...
If this reading is correct,and it sounds like it is, send your blade to Steve at the Invisible Edge. He'll sort it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
I'm assuming you're in Europe/UK.
Sounds like a stropping issue to me. I had the same issues with my Torreys
I agree with gssixgun. I am by no means an expert but two highly reputable honemeisters have told me that despite claims to the contrary, no razor is ever honed to shave quality from the factory and a professional honing needs to be done in order to make it so. Even if your stropping was incorrect, I would guess that it was unlikely the blade was shave ready to begin with.