Originally Posted by
AMarsReject
True, I forgot the honing, which I haven't done since I've had it - I've used paste on my old strop to improve it a bit, on the advice of the chap I was going to send it to to have it honed. He pointed out that for the price of honing it I might as well buy a new shave ready Gold Dollar, so I tried the pasting, which has improved it, but I think, as you all seem to recommend, the time has come to put that honing money into getting a better razor.
My main question now is, with a good shave ready vintage, should I be expecting something akin to a DE pass? Or do all SRs need a little more work for the smoothness of a DE? Not had much experience with a range of razors yet...