Quote Originally Posted by doug954 View Post
Update:
The gold dollar razors came in last week. Now I've heard plenty about these, however my intention was to practice honing with the blades. Well long story short I can't even do that. When the razor is laid flat part of the blades edge does not touch the hone. Now I'd imagine this is due to the razor being ground down poorly when it was manufactured. Anyways I will just have to practice on my other razors.
Actually, thats the point with practicing with GD's.

The idea is these razors don't have, generally, good geometry, and by using an ink marker on the blade, whether you use tape or not seems to be a personal preference thing. But the idea is you learn to use different angles, ways to do the strokes that you end up with a bevel and then you move up the ladder.

It is seldom you will get a perfect blade, and the idea is to use these GD's to learn how to approach honing razor's with less than perfect geometry.

I just got two new one's today, managed to get one to shave ready 1st try finally..the other one I have, brand new, unfortunately has pretty nice geometry, so it won't be that much of a challenge.

Others will chime in, but I'm slowly getting there myself....