Thread: Sun December 11th - Sat December 17th

H-Diamond

Originally Posted by eTom

H-Diamond

i LOVE that razor wish i could find one!!!!!

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Neep, coffee bean brush
Razor: Vintage Revisor
Cream: Vulfix, English Rose
AS: Paco Rabanne, Ultraviolet
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean
This vintage Revisor is the best Revisor I've had, such an easy and enjoyable shave!


... and some:

Today shaving whit a razor that i shortened,there was a crack and that was way to big to remove whit the hone.
As up whit a dremel,the scales slightly modified and up we go.
The razor is a sublime shaver,so therefore this action and saved this beauty.

Prep.shower
Strop.Rch
Brush.Omega boar
creme,Arko
Razor,Carl Paashaus
As.le male
Result. BBS

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Edwin Jagger best badger
Soap: Trumper's Officers & Gentlemens Shaving Soap
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop (3x25)
Razor: Wacker 8/8 "Magnum"
ASB: Caswell-Massey Newport

Nice start of a mild, 5C / 41F, winter day.

Originally Posted by mjhammer

Jeltz, This is the first Gold Dollar I have ever seen!!!! I have heard that they are a mother to hone, and takes a real expert to be able to get an edge on them. Did you hone it yourself? Who honed it if not?

Just curious about them. I have a Giesen & Forsthoff, and I have never seen one of those in here either. I have had a very difficult time trying to get a bevel on it. Just wondering how, what, when, where??? etc.. hehehe.

Anyway, Great Shave!!

Mike

Mike,

Gold dollars are prone to poor quality control, some have warped spines, most have badly ground shoulders which need grinding back so they can be laid properly on the hone, and some have badly made scales and the blade protrudes below them when closed. That said the shoulder issue on some can be worked around by angling the blade.

As I understand it the higher model numbers are better, this being a 208 IIRC. My experience of this razor is all I can talk about as I have not worked on any other gold dollars but it was easy to hone once I had used a dremel to grind down the shoulders. It holds a great edge so the steel is certainly good enough and it gives a shave which is on a par with many of my vintage razors, not the best but mid-range.

I do know that some people have reported the edge doesn't hold up well but that's not been my experience. I think that I originally honed this one on my Coticule using the dilucot method, and I recently gave it a few laps on a Chromium Oxide strop but its been shaving well for a while.

They are IMO a bit of fun and something for someone who had done a little restoration work previously. If you get a good one then, like me, you love it but if you bet a bad one then its a pain.

Thursday, December 15. Good Morning!

Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend
Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Schick G1 Injector
Blade: Schick
Soap: MWF
Brush: D.R. Harris H1 (Rooney 1/1)
Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue

Williams + Bigelow + glycerin + vetiver EO
Omega boar brush
Ribbon 1000 razor



A superb shave and a great start for the day.

SotD Dec 15
This SotD takes me to some 15 years ago,while in Amsterdam,I almost fell off the bridge into the water when my head was aligned to a topless,G-stringed 'mannequin' in a glass door and the doll started to moved and become alived.Got the miniature porcelain building[EDT] on the KLM flight from Kuala Lumpur.
Have a great shave guys,

Cheers,Moonbeam

• Pre: Shower, lather on face.
• Shaving brush: Thater SRP 2011
• Shaving cream: Castle Forbes Lime
• Razor: Globusmen 13/16
• Strop: Kanayama
• Scuttle: SWK XL
• Post: Alum block, Castle Forbes ASB, L'Occitane Vetyver

By blix72 at 2011-12-15
Finally got the Thater yesterday, what an amazing brush!