Description
Dovo Leather Balm is condensed, pure leather fat, packaged in an easily accessible open container. 50ml of product.
This is the exact same physical product as the Dovo “yellow paste” (older style metal tube), just repackaged for easier access to product in to a container with an open lid.
You receive fifty milliliters of leather strop balm here (as opposed to just 5ml with the metal tube). Unless in arid environments, however, even 5ml of paste lasts several years.
To apply the paste, first clean your hands thoroughly – Dovo suede type strops are quite able to trap dirt. Next, apply a bit of paste to a palm, much as you would apply some hand balm/salve. You should not use more than you would of lip balm, for example. Thereafter, pull the strop surface taut. Finally, try to “land the airplane” by barely buffing palm plane to leather plane. Perform in both directions of palm approaching leather. Do try (the operative word here) to put as little Dovo strop conditioner as possible as evenly as possible to the entire effective stropping surface.
The amount of strop balm you’ll need to periodically reapply varies with your local influences of temperature and especially humidity. Of course, high usage will require more reapplications. It is important to remember that frequent miniscule treatments of juuust enough leather fat is far better than overconditioning the strop. When the leather’s been given too much fat, it will slow down and take a long time to speed up again if in any non-arid environment.
How do you know when your strop wants some of the Dovo leather balm? That’s an easy one; when you frequently see plentiful “strop dander” on the concavities of the razor’s surface adjacent to the cutting edge, it is time, friendo.
As you can see here (and NOT at Mr. Bezos’ vending machine), we described in great detail how to use the paste, because back in the day before he took over, people actually used to care about content, and about the people selling something to be concerned with knowing the item they’re selling, and how its quality reflected on them.
We all know you’re still going to buy at Amazon instead, obviously. It is what it is. But for the love of anything, can you *please* click on my linked text at the top of this page so we at least earn 1-2% commission? If we can reach $100, they’ll actually mail me a check; as of the time of this writing in late 2024, I’ve only got ~$16 to go, so I need sales that finish (and are not returned) at the ole’ Amazon thingy of another ~$1000 or so and then I’ll get the sweeetest check in the mail I could ever imagine. Can you imagine getting nearly a whole dinner for two out at Maggiano’s with the wee-fay ‘for free’ courtesy of the one competitor, the only competitor besides beards, really, that could bring this little business that worships its customers with content and service to destruction? I like the “Chicken Francese”, that’s what I’m gonna order, subbing those glorious potatoes for a lame arugula base because of the massive caloric savings and the dearth over time of my caloric balance toward the ‘in’ side of the ledger, and not the ‘out’ side. We’re not there yet, folks, but one can dream.
You can buy anything with the click, it doesn’t have to be to the linked page, it just needs to be in the same shopping cart session ‘cookie’.
Made in Solingen, Germany.
