Thread: Two Gold Dollars

Aye, it took a quite some time to get a good bevel on these, but other than that, honing was pretty much normal. They have tiny smiles that require a little more attention than straight edges. Here is how I did the polishing, none was by hand: http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ling-poor.html

Very inventive on the polishing wheel! Having been a student I know what it's like to make do with the tools available - an upturned belt sander clamped to a bench makes a passable linisher. The best part about not being a student is I now work for a manufacturing company with a big workshop, including bench grinders with all the polishing, buffing and grinding wheels I could possibly need. Though it only took one incident of firing a cut-throat across the room for me to be really grateful that I'm a bit paranoid and always work with the wheel travelling away from me. Miraculously the blade wasn't damaged either, just chipped a bit of the top of one scale. Still it beats polishing by hand, my first restore took around 10 hours with wet and dry on the blade alone!

I've done a few Gold Dollars myself, but only have photos of one at the moment;



I think with this one I bread-knifed the blade until it was perfectly straight from heal to toe, then spent ages putting a bevel back on it with a 220 grit Norton before working through 1k, 4k, 8k and 12k stones. It came up really well and it's the razor I shave with most often, more than my other restored blade or my new Dovo Ebony.

Nice to meet you also Bongo, just on the other side of the ditch too. Interesting, my record for a shave-ready GD is also about 30 minutes. At the other end of the spectrum I've spent a couple of hours, talk about variation in manufacture! Though there have only been a couple I've had to give up on, there isn't much a 220 grit Norton can't fixhttp://straightrazorpalace.com/images/smilies/smile.png

Originally Posted by SimonG

Nice to meet you also Bongo, just on the other side of the ditch too. Interesting, my record for a shave-ready GD is also about 30 minutes. At the other end of the spectrum I've spent a couple of hours, talk about variation in manufacture! Though there have only been a couple I've had to give up on, there isn't much a 220 grit Norton can't fixhttp://straightrazorpalace.com/images/smilies/smile.png

You said it 'bro

I'm a bit lucky in that I've yet to "meet" a G.D. that couldn't be tamed with a good hone.
They are a great way to "hone" our skills (pardon my pathetic pun).

Keep in touch Sir !!

Bongo.