Thread: Modified Gold Dollar

I agree with you Sham. The razor steel is actually pretty good for the money. I've been very pleasantly surprised with it. In fact, I'm giving one as a gift to my brother in hopes that he'll one day be joining our ranks here :

Thanks, Sham!

Nice review Sham.
Do you think the chipping was peculiar to your razor only ?
Most newbs do not have J-Nats & Eschers to get your results.

I did sharpen second one and had same problem. norton 8k did chip the blade.

Ido not have a Gold Dollar but I have a Gold Medal. (made in china) It is really heavy and almost a wedge. Are the Gold Dollar razors like that?

Originally Posted by mackie

Ido not have a Gold Dollar but I have a Gold Medal. (made in china) It is really heavy and almost a wedge. Are the Gold Dollar razors like that?

pretty hefty blades but not wedges.

Originally Posted by mackie

Ido not have a Gold Dollar but I have a Gold Medal. (made in china) It is really heavy and almost a wedge. Are the Gold Dollar razors like that?

Gold Medal is bad one i think i have test that one long time ago. there is no way you could put shaving edge to GOLD Medal.
hope this helps

I keep hearing about gold dollar razors here, and some say they are great and some say they are crap. I know that they are no dovo, but what's the verdict? And if I get a gold dollar would it need to be re-honed before use?

Depends from whom or where are you getting it. They are not coming shave ready from the factory.
hope this helps.

I have purchased 3 Gold Dollar straights; all model 208s I think (don't have them in front of me at the moment). None of the scales were pinned correctly and had to be redone. One of the razors had a bent tang rendering it useless. I rendered it even more useless by trying to straighten it in a vise; it broke (lol).

One of them, after dealing with the scales, honed up well and is quite a good shaver. The other needed to have the pivot hole in the tang redrilled as it wasn't where it should have been. After doing that and correcting the scales alignment, it also honed up into a good shaver.

So then, these have the potential to be very good shavers, but they need work to get there.

They are a $10 razor...

They become a more expensive razor by this formula

Honing
Fix heel
Fix scales
Fix spine
Fix bent tang

Now after either You do this, or have a Restorer do this, you now have a functional razor made of unknown Chinese steel which you paid about the same as an entry level Dovo or TI for if you had the work done, or you paid for in sweat and time if you did it yerself...