Thread: Modified Gold Dollar

My Chinese Gold Monkey 777 (eBay Mr. Parko) came in today, doesn't look to bad. Seems like pretty good steel,I honed it up and it shaved pretty well. The scales are crappy and I need to rub out a few blemishes, but not bad for $14.00.

Cheers, Steve.

I picked up the same razor a while back, have had it in queue for a rescale here for about 2 months and just started working on that rescale this week. I figured I need to learn some acrylic work for another rescale so my GM777 will be used to learn acrylic rescale and by the time I'm done I'll hopefully have a set of hones to learn honing on it as well.

They seem pretty solid for such a low price (but I'm no expert), I'm pretty sure that these razors were discussed in another thread as well, search for Gold Dollar and you'll find it.

I recently while doing a search for razors came across the ads for the SR with Gold Dollar on the blade....and noticed that they were very inexpensive. I noticed they weren't on the good razor list and that they were made in China, but have now read on one of the threads that guys are liking them. What is the deal? And where are they sold at? Under $20 bucks really?

well there was a member selling them a bit ago
but you could try eBay Seller: mr.parko: Health Beauty, Collectibles items on eBay.com there NOT ready for use so you will need to get them honed
or you can get one ready to go from RupRazor - Straight Razors

+1 on what janivar123 said about sharpening. My Gold Dollar 100 took a nice edge and gives a decent shave. I bought mine from Mr Parko and am very happy with it. The main fault I have read and experienced myself are the scales, the blade on mine hit the scales when I first got it but a few light taps with a small ball peen hammer fixed it or you can just replace them. I'm thinking of buying another one, either a Gold Dollar 200 or 208, maybe a Gold Monkey 777 as they have received good reviews.

I got a Gold Dollar 208 from Mr.Parko to practice honing, and it shaves really well.

My blade sits perfectly between the scales, and doesn't go through the other side when closed like some, and so I guess I got a good one.

The edge has a bit of a smile, and really more of a ramp at the point. The rest of the blade is flat and true. This makes honing at the point a bit tricky, but I'm figuring it out.

I was amazed that mine (GD100) shaved as good as it did for a $14 razor. I hear that getting one with good scales is like the luck of the draw, if you bought 2 one may be good. I don't have a problem with making a set of scales if a razor needs it (see pics, 1st pic is a Bengall with Zebra Wood, 2nd pic is a Frederick Reynolds with Purple Heart, 3rd is a Joseph Allen & Sons NON XLL with Cocobolo) If it shaves good and needs scales I make a set and keep it to shave with. If it doesn't shave good and needs scales I make a set and sell it to a collector.

I have a GD and Double Arrow (both Seraphim customs) and a stock 208 (from JReiter) and all are amazing shavers. These are part of my 7 day set (the others being 2 W&Bs, a G. Wostenholm and a vintage Boker 451) that really compliment each very well. Its wierd how a $12 razor can shave as well as other str8s costing 10X more.

I bought three from Mr. Parko on ebay. He has been selling there for several months, but I can't find any auctions by him now. However, I did find these from another seller:

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trk...All-Categories

You can buy Gold Dollar razors from the manufacturer by the case. Otherwise you have to find someone that bought a case or two and is selling them individually.

Roughly $15 with free shipping is what these have gone for in the past. The ones at RupRazor are QC'd and honed so that's why they cost more there.

There are tons of cheap, new razors from Pakistan and China out there. However, the Gold Dollar and Double Arrow brands are the only ones I know of that actually make good shavers. The others seem to be junk.

Edit: Oops. See Janivar's response for Mr. Parko's listings. For some reason I couldn't find them myself. http://shop.ebay.com/mr.parko/m.html..._sop=12&_rdc=1

yeah gotten some from him too