Thread: Honing a Gold Dollar is hard!

Originally Posted by Euclid440

And that is why they are not recommended for new shavers. Yours’s is not an uncommon story.

They can be made to shave, and that is the problem, they have to be made to shave first, then honed. It I not honing, it is Gold Dollar repair…

It is a razor “kit”.

If you want to learn to drive, you don’t go buy a Kit car in a box. You can, but… it will be a while before you are driving.

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 ?

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!

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!

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.