Thread: Need some Advice/Wisdom: Dovo Bergischer Lowe

Those Dovo BL's are gorgeous razors. I've always wanted one, but would probably reserve it for special occasion shaves if I had one. Sorry she bit you-that's how we learn.

I guess I make so much since because it's the easiest of solutions. Not sure though could be anything.

Perhaps start by just cleaning it up something like this, if you can follow some of the angles you can probably keep the goldwash on the spine, and in the worst case and it looks no good you can just polish the rest off later.

The newer BL do not have the rubber band. Probably for this very reason

You should at least stop and remove the active rust. If you want to try to keep as much of the wash, clean/rub with a Qtip dipped in a good gun oil. Get some foam type Qtips from your bride or girlfriend or at a makeup counter.

Was at Nordstrom’s makeup counter, with my wife, the other day and they had tons of them on the counter, for customer and make up folks use. So, this customer used some.

Like my son likes to say, If it’s free, I’ll take three…

If you want to remove all the wash, 000 steel wool and metal polish will take it off. Wrap steel wool around a Qtip or wooden Coffee stir stick for detail work.

I recently picked up a Gold Spike, that sadly I will have to, do that to. Been putting it off thinking of re-plating. Have a lot of Spikes, but not seen many Golden Spikes, and never seen one with the full gold plating. BTW, Spikes are shavers… and I would want to shave with it.

Good advice Euclid440. I haven't touched this razor yet due to having zero time with the holiday hustle and bustle. I will probably try the Q-Tip trick first at least before removing all of the gold wash.


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Try and keep the tang dry.
You could put something on the tang like on the handles of kamisoris. How about a Bergischer kamisori?

I still get teased about extreme skill from the Mrs. 'How'd you get blood on the walls, countertop and ceiling, but not on the carpet? Sigh. 'Sorry to hear. 'Prob won't happen much, if ever again.

All the stuff about polish removing the gold wash is completely true. 'Glad you got to hear it before finding out the hard way. That *is* a terribly handsome razor. The modest clean up might use the Honda spray cleaner & polished - sold for motorcycle cleanup. Its not aggressive enough to take all the rust (or the goldwash would come with it). It does a good surface clean, invades the pits somewhat, leaves a decent luster.

Should you wish to go whole hog & replate, actual plating, instead of gold wash is a bit more robust. 'Last I heard, John at Shavingshop.com did replating, and has been an excellent guy to deal with. 'Got 1/2 my Wackers from him.

Other than handsome, if that blade is straight - without warp or wave, it should be a joy for the rest of your days. Enjoy!