Description
A new creation from Dovo for 2024, the “Runde Sache” has a modern style and an intricate engraving pattern on both sides of the blade.
The square head’s point is both extremely precise but just far enough of the old “spike” point that you’re not going to scratch yourself – Dovo does a wonderful job producing their square heads nowadays to be both a great visual aid for precision line-ups of beard/mustache/goatee/sideburns without being a safety risk.
Carbon steel ~140x18x4.2mm blade, with ~66mm of cutting edge length, ~4.2mm thick at spine, ~16.8mm from spine’s thickest point to cutting edge for a quite acute ~14.5-15° native cutting angle. The weight of the Runde Sache with its scales is just ~40 grams, quite low for a 5/8″ razor.
The Runde Sache has a robust PMMA handle. Keep it away from isopropyl alcohol or any other solvents and it will do just fine, it does not need any special upkeep. Wipe it down when you’re done with your shave and you’re good to go.
“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 Best Quality 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, this ‘BQ’ shall 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. Given how pretty this razor’s engraving, that is important to factor, toward your personal choice.
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.
