Thread: Gold Dollars..which is the best?

The people who tout them often point to the cost vs razors that are properly made out of the gates instead of being like blanks which were pinned with little regard for geometry, warping, or the heel setup by ppl who are most likely in the dark about the logistics of straight shaving. By most accounts, the steel is hard and holds a good edge, but you need to invest time to make it so. Time to grind a blade, time to make new scales most likely, and time to put a bevel and ultimately an edge on it. To me, it ends up becoming an issue of it being cheap initially, but then it costs you all sorts of time to fix everything that is wrong with it instead of just honing and enjoying something like a nice $20 genco that was ground fastidiously with beautiful steel.. You basically are saying your time is not valuable to you. Only excuse /positive with them besides the utility once the work is done is it's a low financial risk way to learn how to repair blades with issues at the heel or toe/geometry issues.

It actually would be far more compelling if their factory sold raw blanks