Straight Razor Honing Sharpening Production | DOVO Stahlwaren | Solingen Germany

¡EVERY DOVO RAZOR RECEIVES ALL STEPS SHOWN!

Imagine you owned a company, and objective fabrications harmful to your business were written, rather routinely and as if factual and unquestioned, in the hobbyist forum(s) germane to your production items...what a world we share! In any event, there is new ownership now, so they can take on the burden of those falsehoods, or not, as they see fit. It takes a lifetime of work to earn a certain reputation, and yet just a moment to earn quite another type of reputation.

In the thread linked here;

https://tinyurl.com/yxn4m62f

a poster writes "...i also understand only trouble razors make it to this stage. i understand not every razor gets hand honed."

This poster was actually contacted directly of this misunderstanding on 9.23.2020, but unfortunately did not correct it at time of this writing 11.10.2020.

What is much more offensive if I were the ownership, however, is on pg1 of the thread an esteemed commenter writes "Dovo gives the razors a quick honing on a wheel before packing the razors and that's all. I guess that it barely equals a quick honing on a 8000 stone, but at least a 5000..." Nobody dares correct '__________', apparently, as __________'s a frequent commenter of long standing. Again, an absurd falsehood offensive to any master grinder.

They don't skip steps! On any of them! A lot more steps aren't shown here, too. Nobody skips steps, but two grinders doing all the same steps to the best of their ability on two ~identical blanks of steel can nonetheless have wildly different outcomes, and this is why they are well paid.

I cannot imagine ANY Solingen-production straight razor grinder varying presence of steps of production from specimen to specimen | model to model. Not every maker uses every step/tool exactly as another, but any individual maker will abide the internal principle that they do all the steps they believe in unless they learn of something better (and at that time all production will adapt) uniformly to all of their production effort. That's just how they're made.


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Razor spine and edge are ALWAYS kept simultaneously flush to the grinding and honing mediums whenever being ground upon; you see a shadow 'below' the spine as she moves from the right of the video to the left because the widest point of the spine (the pt corresponding w/ bevel plane) is NOT also the furthest point from the edge line, it is a few millimeters below and towards the edge from the shadow-making metal at far right. In short, saying "Yes, Dovo takes the razor through a progression of stones. But they do so with the spine raised, as you can see in the video you linked. This not the traditional way to hone a razor, and most people who hone will tell you it doesn't set a proper bevel or give a shave-ready edge." and "Look at the video again, and you can clearly see the shadow underneath the spine." is PAINFULLY unaware, no matter how long and frequent their forum membership/posting may be.

Note Dovo representative referring bench stones as convex, not flat. This is how all German hollow ground straight razors are traditionally produced since approximately late 1880s; it causes your edge to become more thin and fine and sharp, shorter the diameter you can work with comfortably (much easier to say than do!) the keener and thinner is the resultant edge. This, too, is not information well known to most end users and this is true even of those who primarily populate shaving specific forums for hobby.

Please note if you revert an incumbent razor back to the correct manner of geometry as used in the factories which was previously set/honed upon flat references or upon flat references with tape upon its spine, you will lose a significant amount metal and have significant honing wear, but nonetheless a razor with a measurably thinner terminus which too has a narrower chunk of metal behind said terminus (= 'keener') after you "reset" such a razor - you are, in essence, attempting to 'carve out a narrower-tipped smaller object from within a slightly larger and slightly thicker-tipped object'. Do not attempt this on a razor valued for appearance over function.