I guess what I am saying is I do not think I have any basis of comparison for my new razor. I know from everything I have read that "shave ready" from a factory has no minimum quality. Most outfits that sell new razors say they will give all razor a hone and strop before they ship to you. As a newbie its tough for me to gauge weather or not this has been done.

I got a new Dovo and right out of the box it shaved arm hair and shaved my face well (well enough for a newbie). After a 3 pass (sorta 3 passes) shave it wasn't doing too good of a job on the arm hair. I gave it 30 linen, 50 leather and then bam, it shaved arm hair again. I just wonder if it is the minimum sharpness it needs to be or if it could even be sharper. Think I would notice a difference in the closeness of my shave/the way whiskers pop if I sent it to an expert and had it sharpened? I have shaved 5 times now with a gentle stropping in between each shave and it feels the same each time which I guess is good in that I'm not damaging it with poor stropping technique.

Should I hear a scrish scrish sound each time I try to shave hair with it? Does the volume of the shaving sound I'm hearing have anything to do with how sharp the blade is? I also cannot get the hanging hair test to really go consistently. Perhaps its my wife's hair being so so so fine or my execution of it.