Thread: Honing a Gold Dollar is hard!

Yesterday, after honing on crox and leather, and stropping on newspaper. I used the gold monkey today without shaving cream, as a shave test, and it took off as much stubble as a DE would. Am I still supposed to believe that the razor is not sharp.

One issue though with the gold dollar may be that the edge will not sustain once honed to more than 20k. The steel is not of that high grade that can sustain such a fine edge. It will sustain a 10k or 12k edge fine though. So one need not needlessly labour over it to create the finest edge as one would over say a damascus-based razor.