good shave with my dovo shavette tonight.
I've been shaving with my dovo shavette for a little while now. About 2 months-ish. Also my first experience with a straight type razor. Sometimes I do the whole shave with it(up to 4 passes but have been trying lately to stick to 2 due to irritation). Sometimes I do one or two passes then do the final pass with my DE89; and some times I just cleanup with the DE. Usually I have at least some irritation(alum block stings like hell) and a nick or two or three. Last night I needed to shave in a hurry so I just used my DE (2 passes and clean up). I mainly use the black insert with the long dovo blades but had tried the red insert with merkur blades. I didn't like it so went back to the dovo blades.
Today I mixed up some uberlather and went back to the shavette with a fresh long blade. I tried to be very mindful of stretching my skin, the angle and the pressure I was using. Everything just seemed to fall into place and I gave myself a really good shave. if I went for one more pass I think I could have gotten a DFS but I didn't want to press my luck. Just 2 passes and a little cleanup. No nicks and no irritation. although I did almost cut my thumb bringing my hand up to stretch my face. I think leaving it alone for a day was helpful. We'll see what happens in the future. Hopefully it wasn't an accident.
By the way, has anyone tried and liked the persona blades with the green insert? It looks shorter than the dovo blades so I would think the dovo would be more similar to a straight. And has anyone tried to use the open comb insert for anything? they say its for shaping I think but I wonder if it would be like an open comb DE or SE?