Thread: Modified Gold Dollar

I have contacted all persons on the PM list. I will now accept new orders. Please PM me your preferences with your email and telephone number. The current stock is listed in the vendor section under Gold Dollar shipment arrival.
I will get back to you on a first come first served basis with price and best shipping cost.--Jay

Well I just pulled the trigger on a Gold Dollar 208 AND a 108. I couldn't make up my mind which one I wanted, so I got both .

Edit:
I picked up a 108 too

has anyone had a chance to test drive on of these razors yet? i picked up a 208. just wanted to hear from the experts. thanks

Not yet. I picked up the whole line (one of each) from Mr.Park but haven't had a chance to use any yet. Soon maybe. Please let us know whoever has a chance to test drive one.

Mine is still in transit. Ordered on the 2nd. The waiting is killing me.

I took delivery of three from jreiter22. Man did they ship fast! I think he shipped them to me before I ordered them!

Hope to have at least one honed by Sunday night to try on Monday.


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I have a 66, a 100, and a 208. I have honed all three and shaved with the 66 and the 208. I thought they honed up easily to a nice shaving edge. All three now pass HHT and treetop arm hair. The shaves were nice. It will take a while for me to decide how they compete with my other razors. For now I would say they're at least average, which is not bad considering the price. I look forward to other reports.

Father-in-law goes to China all the time. Fetched me what appears to me to be much the same as '208' ~3 months ago, but you can't really tell because there's so much stuff over there that looks exactly the same. He goes to a wholesale 'city' where a building the girth of an airplane hangar and nearly a half mile long has booth after booth of manufacturer and their wares, which they'll customize to you. Says it would take a couple of weeks just to survey the whole thing.

Frankly, I'd be scared if I were Dovo and the like, because these are very close and absurdly cheaper. They're nothing like the stuff from Pakistan. Out of the box it did need significant honing, but I can almost say the same about Dovo and TI, and after getting it up to par I can't really say that the shave's much different than the entry-level Dovo I have.

Not quite on the level of the extra-hollow-ground Dovo, but at least a quality average shave and average edge retention. I've had vintage Solingen-made razors which were much worse at keeping their edge.

I did a basic honing, according to the pyramid 15 and down on my norton 4000/8000, stropped it and it passed the hanging hair...sort of, and however, shaved fairly well. I'm still a newb however..

i bought a 100 from mr. parko on ebay and it took 3 weeks to get here. i have started to hone it. the edge was a wreck, looking at it under a 30x jewelers loop, it had several nicks and in general not good at all. it is starting to hone up fairly fast. will have to wait and see how it shaves when i am done. all in all it looks like it will be ok. especially for the price $15 including s/h...