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honing a gold dollar is great fun.
yesterday I sat down calculating what 'kit' I had gathered and expenses for a getting a foot into straight shaving.
now totalling all the expenses, including
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lol .. I don't have a problem, it's you who has a problem. Shaved with it today, and it did a better job taking away hair from the chin and no cuts. In a single pass, it felt more smooth than a...

I don't have a problem. I did a shave test with that yesterday, a dry shave without soap and the first pass was better than the ones honed in conventional way.

really didn't want to advertise...

12k is synthetic. One more 12K I have is a natural jade, it is 10k or 12k, but not really sure. I do not hone it in conventional way, but use it as Edge pro apex style stone on razor rather than...

with reference to your complaints, today I blunted the edge, (breadknifed it). set a new bevel by rehoning on a 240.
progressed to an 800. and then I do not have a 3k, 5k stone so progressed to a...

stropping is a controversial topic, a strop after shave can realign the edge. That is true from personal experience.

what schechter said is that stropping upto 10 times retains the sharp edge,...

>> what I considered a good edge 3 years ago I would not even have in my rotation.

typically I would have accepted his, had I not lurked across other threads in this forum. And not followed...

Just shaved with it again, 3 pass, WTG, XTG & ATG. Net result: BBS.

No, the edge ain't perfect, it may have micro-serrations but it is giving a smooth shave day-after-day.

curiously I did the...

Yesterday, after honing on crox and leather, and stropping on newspaper. I used the gold monkey today without shaving cream, as a shave test, and it took off as much stubble as a DE would. Am I still...

>> That is not, a shave ready edge, but if you like it…it is, your face.

It shaves, it does not give me any rashes, and is sharp enough to pass HHT.
that satisfies me as a shaver.

I used...

well, I have shaved with a shavette with a feather, and that is pretty sharp.

the edge is ok now, I am shaving with it for past 3 days. It has not given me any cuts. So I guess there are no micro chips or serrations on the edge. I really miss a USB microscope, but am also wary...

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the state of my gold dollars.
the gold monkey was 6/8 & now seems smaller than the 5/8 gold dollar

how many people here tried to hone an SR on a wicked edge, lansky or KME or any of their clones from China ? How was the experience ?

the fact these days is:-

**newsflash**

most gold dollars/gold monkey/zy's these days do not require extensive honing to get a great shave. They are already sharpened to 4k or 6k already. They...

It was the razor I learnt to hone on. It was a good sharp beautiful razor. I must admit I literally destroyed it honing it the wrong way. Had to recreate the edge with great difficulty.

I have honed a gold dollar clone called gold monkey. It was 6/8 and now it is 4/8.