Thread: My new dovo is dying. I must be doing something wrong.

If they ruined the razor, that would be different.

If it were me, I'd send my razor to Lynn and have him work his magic. In the meantime, I would practice with my strop using a butter knife. Going slow, not turning my wrist, just using my fingers to turn the blade. Consider all of this a lesson learned and go on to have some great fun using your repaired ST8.

Okay, how 'bout the wife? Dog? Kids? Neighbors? Anyone else had access to it? These things draw a lot of attention, you know. Be sure to keep your doors locked. And take a really good martial arts course! You may have jealous people sneaking in for quick shaves!

I hate that when it happens!

Bruce

So are you saying the chips appeared more and more after shaves? have you been nicking yourself with it? or just stopped using it altogether.

Did you buy it shave ready? just wondering as you said you got good shaves before you sent it for honing.

I would do what the guys are saying and send it to lynn.

FWIW as a noob, i also favour the turning in the fingers thing over turning the whole wrist. just works for me

Just looked at the website for ross cutlery, specifically their barber supplies page.. The pic of their honing service at the bottom is ironic right?

http://www.rosscutlery.com/

because if my barber pulled a machete out to cut my hair..

The chips have been appearing after a few shaves, but they have not been nicking my face. they may be cosmetic.

I got the razor new and unadulterated from the factory. I was told that you have to hone new blades so I did so without shaving with it first.

I'm going to try it again because I really like it over my parker shavette and I'm procrastinating sending it to lynn because of the 2-3 week turn around time.

i also tested it by lightly running a pin over the sides of the blades. It sticks along one side, which as the youtube guide suggested, may be indicitive of a wire edge-- meaning bad hone.

If you are interested in getting a proper result from your new razor it will have to be honed by someone highly skilled and experienced. I would suggest biting the bullet and sending it out right now. The reasons for wanting a truly shave ready razor are well documented and numerous, so you might as well get it over with and get off to a good start. You will eliminate a lot of doubt and frustration as you learn to use your razor.

If you are really anxious to get going and have a low tolerance for delayed gratification you could get in touch with Don at SRD and order a shave ready razor (Lynn honed) from him. Then you would have a rotation and wouldn't be caught short if you need to send one of them out for honing. Not trying to spend your money unnecessarily but.....you do have optons.

+1

always good to have at least a few razors

+2

Because of your experience you may want to go the absolute safe route and order from SRD but there are many cheap alternatives such as the classifieds and whippeddog.com

EEEEEKKK!!!... GRIND!! and hone $25???? I may be kinda new at this but grind spooks me!

From old threads that I remember, the guys at Ross Cutlery use coticule to hone razors. I'm sure a search on the forum would bring up those old posts. Of course we can all speculate what may or may not have happened, but the best thing at this point is probably to find somebody experienced with straight shaving and honing who is local to you and see if they can help you.
Or you can call them or visit them and see what they say.

If you can't do that you can mail me the razor and I'd take a look and fix it - shipping/insurance options are up to you, I'm only doing the actual pro bono work and not assuming any liability for damage/loss during shipping.