Dovo Barbarossa 10580086 German Straight Razor | Carbon Steel | 5/8 Size | Full Hollow Ground | Spanish Point | Shortened Cutting Length | Ebony Wood Handle | Made in Solingen Germany

$165.09

Dovo Barbarossa 10580086 (formerly 46581) German Straight Razor | 5/8″ Size, Shortened Carbon Steel Blade | Spanish Point | Ebony Wood Handle | Made in Solingen, Germany | EAN 4045284008973

Description

Please note:  in 2022, Dovo updated this model’s physical outlay but did not change the EAN code, product number, or any packaging.   As such, we had to open each piece of the first shipment after we had unknowingly intermingled the old and new inventory, and thus if you select “Factory Edge” you’ll receive a piece we had to open to confirm whether it was this 2022 model (with Spanish head and no shoulder stabilizer) or now-deceased 2021 version (with round head and shoulder), but has not otherwise been altered in any way.

Dovo’s 46 Barbarossa is a ‘shorty’ razor, same grind profile as any common type 5/8″ full hollow round head Solingen modern minus that 2.5cm or so of cutting length (and weight).

The ebony scales have been shortened accordingly, and this 46581 new-for-2022 model’s got a Spanish head and no shoulder.

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“Shave Ready”?

This business is wholly centered upon the sale of one hollow ground straight razor to one shaver one at a time; “1 str8rzr alone” is ~50% of all our orders.    You may elect to have your Dovo #46 with factory edge or further honed by ‘TSS’, as only you see fit; there is not a right or wrong answer.    ‘TSS’ rather doubts the worth of debating this ‘Shave Ready’ concept today;  anyone can bandy that term about as if objective, meaningful information (like a sprinter’s time), but in fact it is completely subjective.

If you elect for the factory edge, you’ll receive your razor exactly as its manufacturers intended…pretty simple!

If you elect for The Superior Shave to further hone your razor via the drop-down menu, the Dovo Barbarossa Moustache razor will be honed in the manner taught in 2016 to The Superior Shave’s proprietor by two kind Solingen master grinders (whom did/do not work for Dovo, but do use similar 1840s grinders’ textbooks methods).    Regardless of their poor refinement  compared to further-honed ‘Honemeister’ edges on offer,  some physical elements of factory edges remain superior to most further honing attempts.   The Superior Shave will devote the extra time to your razor a dying industry cannot afford in overhead, without taking away the factory edge’s inherently advantaged geometric metrics.     We’re confident we offer the materially thinnest  further-honed-by-vendor edge available for purchase – you’ll need to try that to understand why it matters.     Please note: in the professional opinions of German and French razor grinders, a straight razor is not properly honed unless flush to the hone, without tape, so visual evidence of honing is unavoidable when honing is performed correctly according to its maker.

We hone with a method best coined as “the opposite of tape“ where a hone’s geometry’s wholly catered to performance of the razor and to no other concern.  Unfortunately, this topic cannot be discussed upon any English-based straight-razor-centric forum because a select group of e-enthusiasts cannot  abide such open discourse.     Be encouraged to think for yourself, and let your beard and sense of touch be the judge; there is a lot of misinformation out there, much purportedly from experts!     We wish you good shopping, and Happy Shaving.

 

Additional information

Weight 6 oz
Dimensions 6 × 4 × 2 in
Straight Razor Filters;

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Edge

Factory Sealed (= NO RETURNS IF YOU OPEN THE SEAL), "Shave Ready" Further Honed (= opened by us, NO RETURNS)