Thread: Gold dollar

I believe there is a thread dedicated to just Gold Dollars because they are controversial. Some say your odds are less than good to get a decent one others swear they have never got a bad one yet. To each their own. Many members here use them and others despise them. The video posted above is actually a member here. I guess my point is some love them and some hate them. Don't just listen to opinionated hype. Make up your own mind.

I move to move this to the GD thread.

The one GD I have is pretty nice. Holds an edge pretty well..I can't complain. YMMV

I think a lot of people are missing the point here. It's a cheap razor that you can experiment with and not worry about destroying it. Wanna see what lots of pressure does? Wanna breadknife it and see how long it takes to set a bevel? Wanna chip it just to learn how to hone out a chip? It can be a learning tool. It's not a great razor, but it's cheap! It's totally okay if you destroy it. OP, get a DMT and a 1k and have at it. Haters gonna hate!

Then buy a case of Chinese knock offs and have at it. Fun is fun .If that is your definition of a good time I acquiesce.

Gentlemen,

Several years ago, a friend sent me a 6/8 Gold Dollar with fancy blade etching to hone. I was reluctant to work on it, because I had already had several bad experiences with the razor brand, but he was my friend and was just starting out as a straight razor shaver. He didn't have much.

Trying to hone the Gold Dollar was about as much fun as waltzing with a guerrilla.

First thing, I wiped the blade and some of the red coloring smeared on the rag. I thought I was bleeding. After that it was all downhill. The grinding was off, and the bevel looked like a floor mat for a peg legged pirate. For the next two hours, no matter what I did, honing with or without tape, changing from one set of stones to another, the best I could do was a feeble edge. This thing shaved, but then my kitchen knife might shave, too.

Had I been a newbie trying to hone a piece of junk would have taught me nothing. Junk begets junk. Unfortunately, the Gold Dollar fans wax poetry about this low quality razor and the newbies buy it. I don't consider myself a honing master, but there are enough honing greats on SRP that sound the alarm about the Gold Dollar.

I wish newbies would steer away from the guerrilla ballroom.

The Gold Dollar Cheap Razor Merchant, a ballad written by Peter Pindar, Esq. 1806, London
Still very relevant today.

The size doesnt maters , it maters what they are made from. I was a big fan of GD as a newbe , but after i get some quality razors, i refuse to use them and i give them as a gifts .The 60 years produced chinese LARK , with fluorescent handles is a quality rasor but the modern day chinese had no equal qualitty snd they are very rought as a blank
THEY DID NOT HOLD AN EDGE - this is the main reason they are useless . They are heavy , the handles sucks and they have to be modified - a bunch of throuble that doesnt deserve the efforts .
Better option is Yapenicas - they hone a little bit harder but the steel is wear resistant and they hold an edge , like an old , mean dog his favourite bone .i have 2 and i confirm that they are amazing shavers . If you rescale rescale something that worth .

Originally Posted by Steel

I move to move this to the GD thread.

That is a reasonable but pointless suggestion. Get rid of one and another will pop up.

"It's a cheap razor that you can experiment with and not worry about destroying it."

The problem with this logic is that it is a cheap razor that is already destroyed when you get it; and you have to hope that you may be able to salvage it.

Aaaaaahhhhh the old GD discussion, I personally have not taken the dip but I migh just to see what all the fuss is about. Then again I bought a Krieger before I had a real razor and used that to test out dremmel action before I took it to a good razor.

Originally Posted by Chevhead

The one GD I have is pretty nice. Holds an edge pretty well..I can't complain. YMMV

I remember the scales you put on that!