Thread: First razor again

I was rifling through by razors today & came across the first one i had. I loved it, but soon my eye was taken with more blades & it got relegated to the back of the drawer. Well, i decided to run it over the hones & give it a whirl again. It's a Dovo all stainless No 41.
It honed very easily & the shave is so smooth & comfortable! The No 41 is a fantastic blade! I think i'm in love all over again!
If you have treated the razor that started this all off for you the same way, dig it out & see how it makes you feel!

My very first razor is still one of my favourites. I don't have many (just a mere 5...), but that one is still one of my tip top shavers.
So, in order of purchase:
1) Dovo 5/8 "best quality"
2) Shumate 5/8 "for barbers use"
3) Wapienica (stamped SFK)
4) Wade & Butcher hollow ground
5) Genco 5/8 Gold something... ugly but a great shaver (it was a gift from a friend here!)
But yes... the Dovo is still my choice when I'm in need of a good, almost "automatic" shave...

My first razor will always be special. It's a 5/8 ERN Gong that I got here from the BST and had Mike Ratliff hone up.

I actually pulled it out the other day and when putting it away I dropped it! I thought all was well until I stropped it a few days later and heard that awful scratching noise. Yup, the edge got dinged. Luckily it's ever so slight.

This was the only razor in my rotation that I hadn't honed myself. I look forward to bringing her up to speed.

My first razor will always be one of my favorites. Appropriately, because it has "Favorita" etched in gold on the blade. One of my best all time shavers, too.

My first razor was Dovo 5/8 'Best Quality' - the one with the white handle.

About 6 years ago it got dropped. Then I fixed it and relegated it in favour of my more recent restorations.

Just recently (a few months ago) I revived my old Dovo 5/8 again and I am guessing it now shaves even better than before. In fact, I have used it since for benchmarking my shaves against other razors in my collection.

I love my old Dovo because I have done a lot of travel with it, I have revived it and it brings so many memories every time I see it and use it...