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    When I got my Dovo a few months ago decently.
    A while after I managed to get a very veyr small chip int he blade and I sent it out to get honed up and ready again
    I can say the edge was MUCH better after that, so I would say that are shave-able but not great

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    just did shave number 5, funny that the razor i'm discussing is the same one that guny linked a thread to.. dovo silver steel with ebony handles.
    I DONT GET IT!
    This edge is not very sharp, but my God it just shaves so damn comfortable. It is just sharp enough to chop my hair, but not bother my skin. Perhaps I just got a good razor from dovo? I have been trying to copy this edge... can't seem to get it to be as dull as it feels, but cut hair nicely. Any suggestions on a progression to try for the "dullest shaving razor possible" ? This is fun!

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    Technicality

    Here let me explain the technical aspect of it

    When you set the pre-bevel on a razor like they are doing in the vid or like we do with edge restoration you lift the spine so that the really low grit stones only cut on the very Fin of the edge..

    Then you lower spine back down to the stone and hone the razor until that fin is gone and you establish a fine edge getting rid of all the deep stria...
    This hopefully gets rid of all the uneven bits, and you get a super smooth fine edge..

    Now if you peruse the honing forum on here you will find 1000's of threads and Micro pics of this process

    Granted we take things to a rather high level of perfection BUT that rough fin must be honed to an even smooth edge at the very least...

    Now watching the Factory vids you can see that this is done at a very fast pace and not checked very accurately, so it is rather simple.
    If they get to the very fin you get a pretty good shaver, if not, it can be quite rough,,

    Basically it is a hit or miss proposal

    Like I said in that Beginners tips with more knowledge you can draw a pretty good edge out of most of them

    There is no good vs bad it is simply degrees of evenness

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    I thought a factory edge was good too, before I found out it wasn't, I have hem honed now cause. Like a sharp smooth razor? The only one ve ever gotten from a vendor was an Aust, it only needed a crap load of stropping. Not to say the custom guys don't send them out ready, we are only talking the likes f Dovo or TI. Etc, all my customs came laser sharp and smooth. Tc
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    Quote Originally Posted by tcrideshd View Post
    I thought a factory edge was good too, before I found out it wasn't, I have hem honed now cause. Like a sharp smooth razor? The only one ve ever gotten from a vendor was an Aust, it only needed a crap load of stropping. Not to say the custom guys don't send them out ready, we are only talking the likes f Dovo or TI. Etc, all my customs came laser sharp and smooth. Tc
    this is not an "I can't hone my razor, this is the best edge i've ever had!" conversation.
    This is a "why does this edge feel so different?" conversation
    I have a razor here honed from SRD, also got one here honed from whippeddog, and of course my own blades. All shave the way I like... this factory dovo just shaves in a strange way, that I REALLY like.

    As far as the "fin" thing goes, in some of the german videos you can hear and see her putting the spine flat onto the first stone and doing circles... doesn't look like any lifted angle. Generally lifting the angle up is a way to take out any damage to and edge, kind of like how to repair chips on a regular knife, you raise up the angle, but then you bring it back down to a proper angle for cutting.
    Thanks for the info though. I guess what i'm trying to get at: does this razor feel different from the coti? It must be.
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    I know what this thread s about, it's about factory edges being sub par, and I was agreeing and have found this to be true, because I know what a decent edge is, is that clear enough for you? Tc

    By the way the thread ain't about " why does this edge feel different" either,
    Last edited by tcrideshd; 08-10-2016 at 11:57 PM.
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    I said discussion, not thread.

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