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It was me making that thread a couple weeks back. I was only planning to use it for a week+ until my Brian Brown came in, and I did :) It held up fine, although not a huge pleasure to use because of...

I always use tape, so I wouldn't know.




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By blix72 at 2011-07-17

To mention a few: Friodur 8/8, Gotta 6/8, Geneva 6/8, a few Keen...

Shocking "quality control" is an understatement lol.

I just had a great shave using it, but I don't put that on the GD, it's a result of using the excellent Jnat honing tips in the wiki here, it...

Exactly! :) That's the point of this "experiment"

Let's get this back on track. It's about me using a POS razor until my beautiful custom Brian Brown comes in, that's all there is to it. Talk about contrast
It's was a nightmare to even get ready...

Usually it's the stabilizers that's needs to be grinded own.

Good info Glen. Now this thread is just to document my experience with my particular Gold Dollar, which sure needed some heavy work before it was usable. But it ended up decent actually.

So any...

Even if you pick up two, both will probably be no good. They will most likely need some heavy work on the stabilizers , which are way too thick. But once past that, they aren't half bad actually... :)

Aha? Please elaborate.

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.

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...

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...