Thread: Honing a Gold Dollar is hard!

Originally Posted by almond

the fact these days is:-

**newsflash**

most gold dollars/gold monkey/zy's these days do not require extensive honing to get a great shave. They are already sharpened to 4k or 6k already. They are sharp enough as is & they just need a finishing touchup. So my current thinking is most of them merely require gentle honing on a 10k stone and then finishing up by stropping on a newspaper 200 laps each side.

My fault when I started honing was using a carborundum sharpening stone (an oil stone with 2 sides, one smooth and one rough) but doesn't have the grit mentioned. I suspect the rough side is 220 and the smooth side is 1000. But that is just my suspiscion, can't say for sure. This is the one here:



It created a lot of slurry when used with oil, maybe I scraped away the razor edge creating a totally new bevel. It was painful, but I created a new bevel without any reason. Yes, it's a stupid thing to do.

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.