Thread: Newer dovo with significant hone wear

Originally Posted by northpaw

To be fair, that doesn't at all describe the warp honing thread the OP linked. The first six posts are exclusively Mentors and a Senior Moderator. Considering comments like Glen's first line in #6 of that thread, I tend to share Neil's views about this one.

Fair enough about what Glen and Bart said; I only read the post the OP referenced, which was by a new guy. As for the other early posts, it looks to me like Gary was, at the time, pretty new to honing. JMS doesn't seem to reference Dovos in his post. Yes, Mentors and a Senior Mod, but I've been a mentor and am now a mod, but my posts from back when I was learning are probably quite inaccurate. Some were pointed out to me, hence my sig.

Also, those posts are from about a year ago. I think it is quite possible that Dovo has improved their quality since then. I'm not saying that they have, I'm saying I don't know. Are there more recent posts with more recent evidence? I'm asking based on my limited experience at Lynn's, where I picked out 24 Dovo's at random from Lynn's "Wall O'Dovo" and all 24 laid totally flat on the hones and I didn't need to go under a Naniwa 5k in getting them all shave ready. For the timeframe, that was... within the last 2 months.

Also, the badge under my name doesn't say anything about my knowledge of, say TI's. I've never seen a new TI in person, so I'm not qualified to say anything about them. And TI's are just one example; there are lots of things I don't know. I only hope that I now know I don't know at least most of what I don't know so I can stop putting my foot in my mouth (though I'm sure I still do at times).

I bought this off ebay ages ago, and it was a great shaver, but the wear on the spine was curious



I believe that it was just badly honed, and IIRC the width of it supported this.