Thread: Honing a Gold Dollar is hard!

No complaints here, just trying to help you, like everyone else who has spent the time replying to this thread.
After bread knifing the edge, you shouldn't have to go as drastic as 240 grit. The 800 should easily re-set the bevel.
A light bread knifing does help get rid of the micro chipping.
Now that you have the monkey shaving well, try 5 shaves using nothing but a strop, no crox, no hones. You should find the 3rd or 4th shave more comfortable than the 1st. That will help you discover the value of a strop.
If you get to 5 keep going, if you get to 10 keep going, if you get to 50 I am sending you my gold monkey to hone for me, as long as it doesn't end up 4/8...

Why is the toe keener than the heel?

You can get an edge on a razor with tools you have, if you do enough laps. As said skip the 240 stone, your just wasting steel and making more work for yourself.

Just re-set on the 12 and 6K and find out what the problem is with the heel.

Do you have a real synthetic 12k or an EBay natural stone?

12k is synthetic. One more 12K I have is a natural jade, it is 10k or 12k, but not really sure. I do not hone it in conventional way, but use it as Edge pro apex style stone on razor rather than razor on stone because it is so small.

“I do not hone it in conventional way, but use it as Edge pro apex style stone on razor rather than razor on stone because it is so small.”

Well… there’s your problem…

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Dude, really…. You need some stones.

A 4/8 or 3/8 and a King 1k if it is a budget issue.

Hmm, Best of luck with the knife sharpener. While holding a precise angle is very important, the straight razor has built in angle holders, you Almond like to experiment, I get that, but in order to avoid Honing problems, you must try to stick to Proven methods of honing that have worked very well for Hundreds of years, after that it is time to make advancements in honing technology and New methods.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

“I do not hone it in conventional way, but use it as Edge pro apex style stone on razor rather than razor on stone because it is so small.”

Well… there’s your problem…

I don't have a problem. I did a shave test with that yesterday, a dry shave without soap and the first pass was better than the ones honed in conventional way.

really didn't want to advertise that without repeating it, so I kept quiet.

The B. S. ,, Oh the B. S. A gold dollar s hard to hone, see I,m back on topic, by the way, it might shave your face, but then again I don't know if your only 15 with two hairs on your chin, so if you really think you can hone send it to one of us who really shave, we,ll tell ya how your doing, Just a thought, but with your vast experience it should be right huh? Tc

Now there you go, woke up T.C.

Guess you could use an Edge Pro, I thought, you were honing on Edge Pro stones.

But really, why? Shaveable and a good shave are two very different things.

Hey, if you think it’s working for you… Rock On.