DOVO Solingen Shavette Straight Razor: Olive Wood

A cheaper alternative to the classic straight razors and a solid beginners choice. The olive hand gives it a nice look and a good feel in hand. Only complaints is the clear sleeve is a little fiddly to place the blade in and the razor itself doesn't come with single edged razor blades.

Great feel love the long blades, so light gives great feed back on the shave. The only criticism is the long blade sleeve locating pins being plastic weren't clean cut and took a while to locate blade on the pins after cutting of fingers i cleaned the pins up and the blade clipped straight on. Maybe DOVO could make long sleeve in metal would be awesome.

I think I fell in love with this razor the moment I got it out of the box. It feels very nice in the hand and the Dovo blades are very sharp.
Steep learning curve with using this, the first time I used it I purely shaved my sideburns with no cuts, next time I included my upper lip and lost focused for a sec and cut myself badly. Next time I cut my lower lip bad, the next time I shaved my whole face and neck without a nick, all with the grain.

I opened the box and didn't realise that under the bottom foam were the extras. Tried putting long blade into short blade holder, silly me. But instructions would have helped too. I am waiting on a couple of things to arrive I have ordered but did try the long blade out. Found getting hands in right position a little complicating until I watched a couple of YouTube videos which helped clear that up.

I bought this one only because it had a wooden handle, weight feels nice in the hand.

Will write another review when I have used it more, going to try with long and short normal blade to see what works best. But if you are intending to move to a real straight razor then I would suggest sticking with the long blades. Happy shaving everyone. Am very happy with the service from Mensbiz.

So lightweight and easy to use. Could not be more impressed from a shavette. 10/10 love using every day