Thread: Two piece Dovo Special

In all other regards it is a standard Dovo with tang stamp ?

Odd. Livi uses a laminate on his damasks razors. There is a steel core with the damasks forge welded to it. That leaves the cutting edge as a thin piece of steel which avoids the micro chipping you get with damasks steel. That looks more like a defect.

Looks like an experiment that was misplaced and slipped out the door.

Which Dovo is it? Not that I know them all off the top of my head, but I can't think of a Dovo that comes with those scales (or are they replacements?).

That is certainly an odd-looking razor! I'd love to see a highly enlarged photo of the bevel end-on. Was the lamination visible in the shank/tang area, John, or was this plated too?

Regards,
Neil

Downright bizarre, and it's got me squinting at my Dovo Special now ...

I wonder if it could be a 'knock off' ? You know how they take all kinds of branded items and make cheap imitations that look identical. For Dovo to do it I can't imagine it being cost effective to go through all of the stuff you'd have to do to bond the two pieces so that the end user wouldn't pick up on it and the cutting edge ..... edges would meet. Then to go through plating the seam or seams would be a hassle because imperfections generally show through plating IME. Unless it could be a prototype or some sort of experiment ? I recall the video showing a Dovo employee cutting blanks off a long piece of solid bar for making razors.

Here's my question... How does it shave? If it shaves like a DOVO should, then it's just an oddity... Otherwise it's a jproblem...

Also, is the seam EXACTLY down the middle (so the edge would be on the seam) or is it sliiiightly offset (so the edge would be on one of the blanks, not both)

Still a wierd, wierd blade...

Originally Posted by ShavedZombie

Here's my question... How does it shave? If it shaves like a DOVO should, then it's just an oddity... Otherwise it's a jproblem...

Also, is the seam EXACTLY down the middle (so the edge would be on the seam) or is it sliiiightly offset (so the edge would be on one of the blanks, not both)

Still a wierd, wierd blade...

This is another possibility.... it is an ordinary blank and it is not fused/welded but simply a blank that had a line on one edge that ended up being the spine. It should have been polished out but they missed it.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

This is another possibility.... it is an ordinary blank and it is not fused/welded but simply a blank that had a line on one edge that ended up being the spine. It should have been polished out but they missed it.

But then why go through all the effort of covering that with plating? Why not just go back and give the spine a quick polish... Seems the easier solution.

We have a conundrum, Holmes!