Thread: Modified Gold Dollar

Originally Posted by ausbros

but this crap little razor that everyone hates, has after 15 years finally made me actually want to shave every day rather than every week like I always have. It's also made me want to upgrade to something better. Which is how I found this forum in the first place.

That right there is the most important thing!

You've turned a chore into a pleasure, found a new hobby and found new friends here. That's really great, your post definitely made my day...!

Yup, until my beautiful Brian Brown custom 8/8 arrives, all I will use is my Gold Dollar.
I will only use my "traveler " Ozuku Asagi to touch it up if needed. And Tabac soap only .
This is the result of a thread on another forum, so I'm limited to that gear only. Could be fun!
Honed the GD on the ozuku today and got a wicked edge off it. We'll see how long it holds up.

Wish me luck!

i thought those were supposed to be junk...... is it a good shaver??

OutStanding!! I own 2 Gold Dollar Str8's and 100 and the 208, both very fine shavers, U used 3 layers of tape on the final polishing to give a VERY short bevel and as it turned out, very fine edge to both!!
In spite of there being a number of GD's that are not quite up to snuff out there, I'm happy some one other than my self realize's that. I bought both of mine from Ron at starshavingsupples on e-bay, I belives Mr. Lucas's are more consistant than some other dealers out there.
And just for the record, no I don't have any stake in that business!![just to be clear]

Have a great G/day and a BBS to boot!!

tinkersd or SRP

This thread has the potential to be awesome!

Originally Posted by Blix

Wish me luck!

You'll need it

Wasn't that the one that rusted between passes?

Originally Posted by paco664

i thought those were supposed to be junk...... is it a good shaver??

If you buy them by the dozen you may get a few good ones.

Originally Posted by paco664

i thought those were supposed to be junk...... is it a good shaver??

It took a LOT of work before I even could hone it, and I have only two shaves on it so far, but those shaves have been really fine actually, but now I have the opportunity to check how it holds up for 7+ days...
I'll update the thread every day.

Originally Posted by Zephyr

You'll need it

Wasn't that the one that rusted between passes?

Indeed. Now I have later learned that good carbon steel does rusts really fast, so it might not be a problem, but it might end up quite interesting lol.

You will be good blix

All I use now is gold dollars I can typically get a month of shaves out of each blade before needing to go back to touch it up. Probably could go even longer than that but my neck gets temperamental when an edge starts to go. I have a seven day set of 208's that I am working on kitting out in new scales and the like. So have fun.

As to having to buy them by the dozen I have bought 8 gold dollars total with my first being a gold dollar 66 and except the shoulder problem (that is simple to fix with a dremel) all have taken an edge very nicely.