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Wow, I was unlucky then. Mine came shave ready out of the box,thought not as good as I can get it to. When I found here, it was after getting the rabbit hole of fixing geometry issues, trying...

Agreed. There were lots of issue with those, but I guess dealt with them successfully, although one was pretty close to failure. Those were actually much better than I expected giving the prices. But...

I guess if there were higher resolution pics, you can probably see what I meant. There is no absolute straight line or absolute flat surface. And most importantly, the spine and the edge are in a 3d...

Cannot agree more on this. My dud modern Dovo Astrale is actually a good shaver when I received it, it got even better after I got it shave ready again. But still I don't want to go through it again...

Assume you got it decades ago? Or I was just unlucky.:aargh:

I double checked, the edge of those 4 were straight actually. But I think you were right about two of them being warped. I guess it might be because the edge were thick enough and the warps weren't...

You answered my question regarding edge retention. I got the GD shave ready, but I had no confidence whether it's going to hold the edge.

Never thought of those. But those are really very valid reasons. For this case, it was just my curiosity and anticipating of delay of delivery of my NOS razors.

I wasn't thinking of buying them at all. I was looking for something else while I was waiting for a few NOS razors to arrive. I guess it might be because I searched vintage razors on eBay,...

I bought my Dovos not long ago, more or less a year I would say. I'm not sure when was the buyout you were referring to, but if that was over a year ago, the quality is still terrible. 1 in 3 is a...

Cannot agree more. I was proficient in knife sharpening before jumping on with straight razors, it still took me quite a few attempt to get the brand new Dovo Astrale with severe geometry issues...

Thanks for the advice. I learnt that myself, lol. I had been using cartridge razors for over a decade. It was alright until it wasn't. All of a sudden I found I could only get one or two comfortable...

Wow, that's really really long writing. For those I meant to practicing honing only, have never thought of the edge retention etc at all. They served that purpose really well, except that none of...

Recently order 6 different ones from AliExpress, but they sent me 3 same ones for some reason, so in the end I got 4 different ones. Note that I have no connection to neither AliExpress nor any of...