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Lesson learned.

What's important is that my shaves are getting better. Today was already comfortable and I managed to get only two small nicks.

Honing the new Dovo has been interesting. I have...

Yeah, you're right and that is what I did at the end. First I just tried to hone to problem away and the resulting spine and bevel wear is what you get. Oh well, everybody has to make their mistakes...

What you see is two things: me learning to hone and a serious frown being worked away (the frown was on the blade when I got it)

Yeah, the spine wear is even on both sides. I figured that if I had used a tape on the spine when I grind it down the bevel angle would have changed dramatically. On my other razors and this one too...

Is that as in "aaaah, what have you done!" or as in "aaaaah, is see what's the problem."

The edge had a crack that was probably 2-3mm deep and serious frown so I had to grind it down as much as...

This is what the razor looks like

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as you can see it is really worn down and I am not even sure if I can get a good edge on that anymore, but at least it is good to practice on.

The reason i put a microbevel on the filly was because the filly is so worn down that the bevel width is insane (5-6mm). So I thought I would thin down the bevel and set the profile on the coarse...

Gugi and shooter,
thanks for the info. Actually what gugi said about microchips developing when you hone, surprised me. On the 6k, this time I did 40 circles and about 20 laps. At least there were...

I got to the bottom of my problem. Stone lapping. It turns out that sandpaper on glass did not produce a flat stone thus leading to frowned edges (the center was higher than the edges). I got the dmt...

Jeah, I figured the dovo needs more work on lower grit hones.

There were infact few microchips on the edge of the dovo but nothing serious so I let it be for the first shave. I did some serious...

I had my first shave with the new Dovo. Much better but not quite what I want or can imagine it can be. Nicked myself only two times which is a record and no horrible razor burn afterwards. WTG pass...

Jep, I paid 17 euro for the filly, but it wasn't in good condition either. If I screw it up it wont be a big loss.

The place you are referring to is probably plektratrading. I bought my king...

Thanks all. And it is nice to see a fellow Finn here on the forum. I thought I was the only one here, since this thing is really marginal in Finland. But I guess there are few after all. :)

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Hi all,
I come from knife sharpening background and decided to try out SR shaving. Because of my background, the murray carter stuff is familiar to me so I decided to try it out. This is how it went...