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I got out my modern Dovo Bismark, one of two plain blade razors that were sold by yes, Jarrod as the Dovo Pallisander for the pallisander wood scales. It was a fantastic idea, if you got a good one....

Amen brother, I wouldn’t buy one either unless the seller affirms under right of return, that it hones normally on a flat hone.

You can see all of the problem in the attached image.

But Dovo’s...

Boy this makes Dovo look good! I’m going to buy a 7-day set! Not.

My opinion, for what it’s worth (not much, lol) is that razor honing and probably grinding folks in Germany are college students looking for a gig and beer money. Almost no one makes a career out of...

Absolutely Mike, you can hone on an apple if you practice enough, but why?

The problem is that Jarrod is actually hurting the Solingen firms. He’s raising a lot of bad press for them and making them look bad. I have no idea why he would want to hurt them.

He’s been...

Yes, that’s true, but you don’t need a convex hone to do that.

They’re honing the cr@p out of the middle of the razor; look at the black swarf on the stone. Most of it is in the middle, that’s...

That was me Bill. Another issue with domed hones is how do you get the heel in contact with the hone? The toe too for that matter. I was looking at a video on another forum of a proponent using one...

All these posts from razorfranken81 and rasur81 (B&B, closed) do is result in innumerable posts about how bad Solingen grinding is these days. If these posts weren’t made, very little would be said...

There are several techniques to help with weak heels. A rolling x-stroke is best if it works, no special ‘tools’ needed. Sometimes you have to lift the toe up a little on the worse ones during that...

Post 2356 here:

https://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/what-straight-razor-have-you-honed-lately.52921/page-118#post-1760459

Glen’s seen it too.

Yep, you’ve got one.

I think that some of the Dovos, especially the lower end ones, have the hollow itself overground in the middle of the blade. I have one like this and a Herder Constant that’s the same. While it is...