This is a good point
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Yeah, if you look in the workshop section, a lot of guys that are into that kinda thing have used Gold Dollars as blanks for some neat projects. Perhaps that's the best way to view them, an 85% complete blank. Scales are pinned, and it has the basic shape of a razor. With a little tweaking you'll have something nice.
Hey, Gold Dollar's are filling the spot that some maker had to fill, I thank them for providing Learning to new honers for little $$, even totally messed up an GD will make part of a wind chime... Or Lime cutter, or....
how many people here tried to hone an SR on a wicked edge, lansky or KME or any of their clones from China ? How was the experience ?
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That's not really relevant to this thread. You might want to start a new thread with that question.
I actually really like the Gold Dollars I bought. They fold up nice and fit right into a smaller pocket I have on my leather pouch at work. I find they work really well for cutting ridge cap when I'm shingling, cut 6mm poly real nice, and trim urethane foam around new window installs real well too. I don't find them hard to hone at all either. I take Some 220 grit sandpaper on a 2x4, do about 20 circles each side on that and it's ready for some more shingles!
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the state of my gold dollars.
the gold monkey was 6/8 & now seems smaller than the 5/8 gold dollar
How did you trash the edge?
Man, I gotta have a Gold Monkey,,, that's all there is to it! :shrug:
the edge is ok now, I am shaving with it for past 3 days. It has not given me any cuts. So I guess there are no micro chips or serrations on the edge. I really miss a USB microscope, but am also wary of adding too much equipment around the razors. All the stones, strops, paddles etc are now becoming unwieldy.