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With the Gold Dollar you can't be sure what you will get, as what has been said above is correct ( I have a half dozen of these ). You should not consider that you are buying a razor, but rather a...

Something that should be apparent from pictures of these razors is that they have a smile. So you will need to break out your rolling X honing strokes. Just to brush up your technique look Rolling X...

All three that I have are 13/16ths wide,I'm guessing their all about that size from spine to edge.

I'm interested in several of the stainless models but as they are in short supply and many are after them I guess I'm in for one of the 300's

Here's the tale of the last of the three Gold Dollar razors I got,the #100. As you may recall from the last episode the Gold Monkey was annealed at the tang and re-drilled. The #100 also was in need...

Ok I just annealed the tang, keeping the blade cool with water. I then center drilled and drilled the tang using high speed steel drill bit. Problem solved.

Just maybe a carbide drill, It may be possible to anneal the tang and drill it. I guess it's worth a try.

Here's a short report on the Gold Monkey. The same progression was used to hone the razor. I set the bevel on a Shapton Pro 2k,then a pyramid starting with 20 laps on SP 5k and 8k and polished on SG...

Well no I did set the bevel. Here's the progression,First I set the bevel on a Shapton 2k. When I was happy with that I did the standard pyramid starting with 20 laps on Shapton Pro 5k and 8k. Next I...

The shave, the short version, wow did I get a great deal on a razor. The longer version, after giving the 208 some laps on the thuringian stone I decided to give the razor the full Monty and did 35...

Well here's some pictures of the 100 and the Gold Monkey. Something I should have shown better is that both these razors are gimped on the top and bottom of the tang. I will try and get a shot of...

Will do,I'll post some pictures this evening.

Three Gold Dollars arrived in the mail today from Mr.Parko. a 208,a 100 and a gold monkey. I'll shave test the 208 tomorrow morning. My first impression of the 208 was it looks OK and the steel has a...