Thread: Honing a Gold Dollar is hard!

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

What is going on here?

honing a gold dollar is great fun.
yesterday I sat down calculating what 'kit' I had gathered and expenses for a getting a foot into straight shaving.
now totalling all the expenses, including

1. gold dollar + leather strop + #10,000 diamond paste = $15.99
2. leather strop compound green bar = $2.94
3. paddle strop = $6.66
4. 10000/3000 grit sharpening stone (100mm) = $3.81
5. 6000 grit DMD (100mm) = $7.99
6. ZY straight razor (received gold monkey) HRC60 steel = $12.99
7. 12000 jade green (50mm) = $2.20
8. 240/800 carborundum = $2.00

Total expenses incurred for newbie: $54.48

Don't you think that rocks.
anyone who can allocate such a small budget can easily hone their own razors and get the satisfaction of a straight razor shave.

who cares if I wreck that razor honing it the wrong way, it is a great learning tool to learn how to hone, to learn how to shave with a straight. It would have given me the heebiejeebies if I were to order an expensive dovo or TI and start learning to shave and honing that. The GD that I hone, gives me a close enough shave that lasts for well over a day and I need to shave only every alternate day. It's that close and smooth.

Originally Posted by almond

honing a gold dollar is great fun.
yesterday I sat down calculating what 'kit' I had gathered and expenses for a getting a foot into straight shaving.
now totalling all the expenses, including

1. gold dollar + leather strop + #10,000 diamond paste = $15.99
2. leather strop compound green bar = $2.94
3. paddle strop = $6.66
4. 10000/3000 grit sharpening stone (100mm) = $3.81
5. 6000 grit DMD (100mm) = $7.99
6. ZY straight razor (received gold monkey) HRC60 steel = $12.99
7. 12000 jade green (50mm) = $2.20
8. 240/800 carborundum = $2.00

Total expenses incurred for newbie: $54.48

Don't you think that rocks.
anyone who can allocate such a small budget can easily hone their own razors and get the satisfaction of a straight razor shave.

who cares if I wreck that razor honing it the wrong way, it is a great learning tool to learn how to hone, to learn how to shave with a straight. It would have given me the heebiejeebies if I were to order an expensive dovo or TI and start learning to shave and honing that. The GD that I hone, gives me a close enough shave that lasts for well over a day and I need to shave only every alternate day. It's that close and smooth.

It looks like you got all you are looking for to be happy with your straight razor journey. It appears you are set with the gear and you are getting the results you like, we can now move on with a sigh of relief.

Edit - on second thought, not going to feed into this anymore lol.

I got a GD so that I could make all of the initial mistakes on my honing learning curve on a cheap razor.

See my thread in this section:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...ng-course.html