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Yeah, I've been eyeballing a Merkur HD or 34C (same thing? :) ) for a while now for travel and speedshaves.

BTW, I figured out the stropping, now I can do maybe one lap per one or two seconds,...

Yeah, that's what I've been doing, but when you average 10-15 laps a minute it gets boring fast... :) I've noticed some improvement in my shaving as well (I went from 10 nicks to 2 nick to zero nicks...

Right now it feels as if it gets sharper every time I strop it, but I still need to improve my technique so I can do it without nicking the stop (cheapest leather only Dovo strop).

Nice, did you get it in the post already btw? :)

Here are some other things I've written about my initial experience in other threads;

http://straightrazorpalace.com/shave-day/30515-sotd-jan-18th-jan-24th-2.html#post313460
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I just ordered a Dovo, and I've tried shaving with it twice. First time it tugged quite a lot on my whiskers, and I cut myself about 10 times. So yesterday I gave 50-100 laps on my yellow coticule w/...