Thread: Need help

By all appearances it’s just a ZY and priced normally for a ZY. That is, it’s a shape-modified and cosmetically better Gold Dollar 66. I’ve had two, one was fairly decent and honed up normally. The hollow on the other started about halfway down the blade on one side only, so it sort of looked like a kamisori. The bevels looked OK though. If you can hone a 66, this one should be no problem.

The bad part of a ZY is of course, once you’re done, you still just have a Gold Dollar 66. I’d have started with a 208 or a Gold Monkey. You could turn a decent one of those into a razor you don’t hate to use, especially if you have a pair of suitable donor scales laying around. The blade is just a poorly finished 13/16 half hollow, but the scales on all of them are the worst part about the Chinese razors, not the blade (usually, lol). The fancy models are even worse, they could suck a blister on a potato sack.