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04 Mar, 2020
What a PITA.
The so called factory edge is horrible. The spine was lifted off the belt or wheel or whatever, making an artificially obtuse bevel angle, removing exactly the WRONG steel, and causing proper bevel setting to be an epic task. They would be better off just leaving the edge alone! It takes me 20 minutes just to set the bevel! I can't imagine how confused a newbie would be, trying to hone this razor. Otherwise, well, it's a Gold Dollar. What do you expect? Nothing wrong with the steel or the HT. Once it is dialed in, it will shave just fine. The trick is to GET it dialed in. Most honemeisters won't touch this and no newbie will be able to do it. Noobs, you are honestly better off with a 1996, or even a 66. Unless you can get one of these from a VERIFIED honemeister who can be trusted when he says it is "Shave Ready". Beware of "internet shave ready" LOL!
I also don't like the juvenile "kewl dude" styling. Looks like something a 18yo military recruit in boot camp would buy from a shop right outside the gate on his first liberty. I only got these because I had a customer ask about one. I much prefer to stick with the 66 and 1996.
17 Sep, 2018
Gold Dollar 66, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and the Cheap
6 of 6 found this helpful Four stars are supposed to mean "Better than expected". Well, it is not betterr than expected but I knew what to expect. I have been buying and modifying these razors for several years now, to the poit where they are not recognizable as Gold Dollars at all. In this form, they can be excellent razors. Basically I use them as crudely ground blanks that are already heat treated, from which I create something else entirely.
As for the GD66 razor in stock condition, the grinding is horrible. It is obviously ground by workers who do not shave with straight razors and do not understand straight razors, who are paid according to how many they grind in a day. These razors are not meant to shave. They are meant to sell, for a low price.
The fact of the matter is they CAN be shaved with, modified or even stock, if properly honed. The operative word here is "properly". Skilled and experienced honers of straight razors can be utterly flummoxed by these wonky blades. When you understand them and know how to deal with them, then you can make them perform fairly well. In fact, a GD66 honed by someone who truly knows how to hone one, is probably the perfect razor for a beginner. Those who make their living selling Dovo Bests or other so called premium razors will go into a sputtering rage reading that, I know, but it is all about the honing. Mostly, anyway.
The #66 Gold Dollar along with others in the original lineup of Gold Dollar models suffers frrom a very thick spine and so the bevel angle is very obtuse, around 19 degrees. The optimum is around 16 to 17 degrees. Doesn't sound like much but it is enough to prevent this razor from being a light saber science fiction horror movie sharp shaver. It will still shave, though, and with reduced tendancy to cut the unskilled or careless.
The steel, surprisingly, is fairly good, believe it or not. One problem is that guys who don't have a clue about honing razors are disappointed because they can't get them sharp. Well, duh. Of course they can't. So blame the Chinese steel. Easy. Don't blame yourself being clueless. A razor is NOT a knife. They are both sharp pieces of steel. There, the resemblence ends.
If you actually DO have considerable experience honing razors and shaving with them, by all means, get a few of these to play with. They are cheap. Where else will you get something you can actually shave with, for four bucks? If you have no history honing razors, don't be disappointed when you can't get them to shave, especially if you don't even know how to shave with a straight razor yet.
I give it four stars because it does everything I expect it to, requiring no more work on my part than I already expect, and the price is right. For the money, I can barely buy a bar of O1 or 1095 steel that I would have to forge and or grind then heat treat and then grind a bit more to get what I already have when I have popped the ugly (but surprisingly tough) plastic scales off one of these razors. I also know I can bring it up to a reasonable state of shave readiness with no modification at all, just spending a lot of time setting a proper bevel and very careful finishing to get the best out of the obtuse bevel angle.
If you are a raw beginner hoping to get into straight shaving for four bucks, thinking to buy one of these razor shaped objects and sharpen it and give yourself a perfect barber shave, you are deluding yourself. If you are an accomplished practitioner of the manly arts of honing and shaving, but have listened to vendors and their parrots belittle these humble Chinese blades, then maybe you owe it to yourself to see if all the bad press is true, or not.
20 Jul, 2016
Doesn't cut hair!
This clipper does not cut hair. I don't know what possible use it might be, but it is supposed to be used for cutting hair, and it is totally unusable for that. Two words... Walmart. Electric.