https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Orm...ature=youtu.be
Here's how easy it is, when your razor is sharp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Orm...ature=youtu.be
Here's how easy it is, when your razor is sharp.
This certainly is a good response to the idea that a GD can't shave! Of course, it doesn't help that so many people sell "shave ready" GDs on Amazon and eBay, which I suspect are not even close to properly honed.
Hahaha i saw a post from you earlier saying you were saving up your whiskers for a GD shave video, i was expecting like a quarter inch of stubble.
That was intense man :rofl2:
To all the Gold Dollar haters, that'll learn ya.
Mine was for honing practice mostly but it shaves very well.
A TRUE hater will hate it even more. A true hater is much more comfortable about sharing his world with a cheap Chinese razor that will NOT shave, than with one that will. Showing it doing its job as good or better than the average $100 razor won't make those guys accept them as "proper" razors. And that's okay. We don't have to like what we don't want to like if we don't want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by STF
Then you got guys who just go along with the hate and howl in the chorus cause they are not actually familiar with the razor. When the proof is right there before their eyes, they can see and accept. They aren't true haters. You just gotta show them.
Clearly a fake beard. How much did you pay him to make this video? :D
HAHAHAHA it's not a beard at all. A beard is when you grow it out deliberately, and keep it trimmed and in good shape. This was simply not shaving.Quote:
Originally Posted by markbignosekelly
I wonder if he get get more junk hanging on them there bib overalls?
Saving up some whiskers?!?! Man that's not "some whiskers". That's a full blown hockey playoff beard.
Well, there's no more room for anything else hanging inside them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johntoad57
Aloha!
Ha. Reminds me of my grandfather shaving with his old Solingen when I was a kid. He wielded a fast blade on his course beard too. Styptic pencil at the ready because he did cut himself frequently with his cavalier style of shaving. I would not have been surprised if I saw sparks fly when he shaved.
Yep, I have three GD razors and I've honed every one to a nice shave finish. My red scale model actually DID come shave-ready, but it still IMO needed a 12k hone finish. I have long suspected that even when they actually DO come so-called shave-ready, it's a 4k/8k Norton type hone. Just a hunch.
Anthony Esposito (The Stallion) loves his GD shavas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sClejBCjlk
LOL Yeah I used to hang out with them guys on their yahoo group. Very militant cadre of Gold Dollar warriors. Most inspiring.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZipZop
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Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
Hah! That was a good one.
I had to add, since I mentioned my grandfather;
He would have been SHOCKED if he knew about a community like this that labors over honing and soaps and stropping and accessories for shaving. He had ONE straight razor (a Solingen that I still have) and one well-worn strop and one rather well used barber hone. A basin, a mirror and ivory soap. Yep. He'd shave off a few strips from an ivory soap bar from his bathroom sink and whip that up in an old mug with an old brush to a lather. Nothing fancy. Actually, very Spartan.
I suspect if he did have a Gold Dollar, he'd make it last his whole life and that would be it. He was a product of the great depression. One razor, hand soap from the bathroom, a mirror and a styptic pencil at his kitchen table. That was the extent of his shaving den. How times have changed for his grandson.
Yeah, my dad was the same way. He was born in 1926, was a D-Day veteran which was 2 months and 10 days after his 18th birthday. He had a couple of razors but I think one he got from someone and never used. I don't even know what happened to that one. I still have his old J. A. Henckels, His one Hazel Atlas milk glass mug and the old leather belt he used as a strop.
You're right, it was definitely a different world then.
Did he do all that shaving with only his right hand......? I haven’t used my gold dollar razor in 8 years ...I think
Yup. I always shave with just my right hand. Anyway it wasn't a lot of shaving. The actual shave only took maybe 5 or 6 minutes, tops.Quote:
Originally Posted by nessmuck
Absolutely. I think my grandfather was born around 1895 ish, so he was right in the heart of the great depression as a man trying to raise a family. The spartan lifestyle that this era spawned lasted him the rest of his life. My father was born in 1927, so he also had a bit of a depression era mentality, but not to the extent of my grandfather.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
I do remember my father telling me long after my grandfather passed that my grandfather was appalled that my father used a DE razor where he actually had to BUY razor blades and then THROW THEM AWAY after use. My father said my grandfather could not get his mind around that. My grandfather would ask him something like, "Why on earth would you ever buy expensive razor blades for those new fangled razors when you can buy ONE straight razor and be set for life without having to ever buy another razor ever again?" A different mind set for sure.
This was you in that video?Quote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
Of course. On my income, do you think I could afford to pay a hollywood leading man handsome enough to play me?Quote:
Originally Posted by Johntoad57
There should be a GD competition to see who can get the most shaves out of a GD razor with leather and linen only. Can get the edge to shave ready however you like
If someone organizes one, I'll play:rock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Christian1
COunt me out. I go 50 laps on .1u diamond balsa after every shave. I want to always have the best possible edge. Not interested in seeing how bad I can stand it. Very interested in seeing the results, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by STF
I'm curious too, as I recently started heavily modding some GDs that I bought like a decade ago, then forgot about lol
Haven't gotten to the point of honing on any of them yet though
But... less a competition of how long you can go, and more just a data compilation of how many shaves before you feel it needs touching up (and how that compares for you vs other razors, if you normally keep track of that sort of thing).
I think that would be more practically useful info to have.
Oh yeah, and I do all my own stunts, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johntoad57
And here I thought that was Mel Gibson. Now I'm disappointed.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
By the way, I always shave with just my right hand too. It's how I learned and I'm sticking with it.
I would need shoulder surgery...if I tried to shave with only one hand...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
I agree. I was using both hands on day one, bit awkward to start with but now if I broke my left arm I just wouldn't be able to shave.Quote:
Originally Posted by nessmuck
I did try to shave with just my right arm a few months ago for the fun of it but had to stop quite quickly because I could tell that I was going to get pink lather if I continued.
Just a BTW here. If the scales are flat cutouts of Acrylic, it is probably a P81, AKA "1996". Scales are available in red or white, and also according to my girl at the factory, also an off yellow but I haven't seen one of them yet. IMHO the P81 is the most practical of all of the GD models. Easiest to hone. Slightly tighter bevel angle. For the price point, a reasonable level of fit and finish. Grinding, instead of horrible, is merely "not so great". Easiest one to make shave ready by far and my favorite model. But even the 66 has improved a bit from the bad old days, when they were far worse and actually needed surgery to make into efficient shavers. If you get a new 66 with the laser etching instead of crude stamping on the tang, you are getting the third generation, even better, but not as good as the P81. Your efforts to improve your P81 will not be wasted.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZipZop
Jnat edge. Clean linen and leather only 92 shaves on a 66 (the cheap one $3.51 shipped from buyincoins)Quote:
Originally Posted by Christian1
Wow, nice going, Bill! How was the shave when you threw in the towel? You know, that's probably right up there with most Solingen razors, or at least not lagging by much. I think somebody here just got like 180 shaves from a Filly 14 but hey that's a Filly 14.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill31521
The edge went from cutting well to tugging mid shave. I was able to finish but that was enough.
You aren't as I would have pictured you. I didn't think that you would have a beard! Well, I guess you don't now.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
How is that camel bone to work with?
Well, as you would guess, it is very stiff. It must be thinned down quite a bit to have any flex. If course you can use a spacer instead of a wedge, but I like a nice flare-out in my scales. I haven't done anything with the bone yet. They are still sitting on the dining room table. Mrs Monster won't stand for that much longer though, and I will have to take them out to the shop. Bone can be very noxious and smelly when cutting or sanding but all the hassle is worth it when you are done. Next best thing to ivory, and most laymen can't tell the difference at first. They don't warp like horn does, either. I will get around to making some scales some day soon. I got a lot of other projects with higher priority right now. Got to have a brew day soon. Got to hone some more razors to sell. Got the Herder blades to HT and grind. Got to do some more work on the boat, got a pistol to build (.45ACP, 80% frame), got my ongoing day trading, and an ever growing honey-do list. So sometimes new projects take a while to get off the ground. But very soon, probably next week, I will make a few pairs of scales.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johntoad57
Camel and giraffe bone are considered the best bone for razor scales because of their density. Cow or buffalo bone is a bit less desireable due to lower density but it has been used quite a bit. Horse bone might work, though I have never heard of it being used.
I bought 3 Gold Dollar 66's for just messing around with honing and such. Yes, they're not as refined as the typical Solingen offering but in terms of actually shaving with them, they take an edge just as well as anything else. Blindfolded no one could tell.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
I switch hands. No biggie. When I wore a flattop, my wife couldn’t wrap her brain around me switching hands with the clippers as I cut my hair.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
