INFO! 2019 Gold Dollar Mod Competition

[Saxonbowman]

Glad to hear you are making progress @Monoxide! We can't wait to see the pics.

I'll work on reposting the pics when I get a chance.

 

[Monoxide]

She's all finished used it this morning for my shave.

 

[Saxonbowman]

Nice work @Monoxide! How's it shave?

 

[Monoxide]

@Saxonbowman Pretty good all my whiskers are gone and only one spot on my neck that is irritated but that happens 9 times out of 10 when I shave I just can't get it down. It cuts like a razor through a hair I know bad pun I just couldn't help myself

 

[ajkel64]

Nice scales @Monoxide, what sort of finish did you go with?

 

[Monoxide]

@ajkel64 They are walnut with boiled linseed oil as the finish

 

[David]

She's all finished used it this morning for my shave. View attachment 980113 View attachment 980114 View attachment 980115

Nicely done!

 

[Saxonbowman]

For those of you who can't see the pictures in the original post, please let me know if these work or not...

Thanks to the generosity of our moderator team we have some great prizes. The Pro Class winner will receive a Tony Miller 4 sided paddle strop from the Mod Team, and

a plain vanilla steer-hide hanging strop with cotton secondary component, courtesy of Tony Miller.

For the novice class winner the mod team has also donated a rotary tool kit, similar to this one

The prize will be shipped to the winner from Amazon, so the actual model may vary according to their location. Of course all entrants get the best prize of all, the stunning razor that they have created!

Sorry that the original images didn't show up.

 

[David]

I can see those. Thanks, Mike!

 

[Cal]

Thank you Mike.

I can see clearly now.

 

[Monoxide]

I will third that motion I can see them as well.

 

[Ufgoodies]

And for the record...those show up

 

[bpm5cm]

So I decided I was going to mod one for my father for fathers day and was casually asking him opinions on which styles he liked better. He likes the spike point (at an angle, there seems to be some controversy over whether spike means square or tapered). For this, would it be better to try to cut the angle with a rotary tool and cutting disc, or to sand/grind it to shape? I think I've read in one of the other mod threads that you really need a diamond cutting disc to make clean cuts through these.

I also personally don't like the idea of giving him a spike point as he's never used a straight razor and in my mind its going to be much easier to cut yourself with a point like that, so I may also give him a plain honed GD66 just for him to start with

 

[Saxonbowman]

This is beyond my expertise @bpm5cm. Hopefully somebody with more knowledge will chime in.

 

[Cal]

He likes the spike point (at an angle, there seems to be some controversy over whether spike means square or tapered).

For this, would it be better to try to cut the angle with a rotary tool and cutting disc, or to sand/grind it to shape? I think I've read in one of the other mod threads that you really need a diamond cutting disc to make clean cuts through these.

HELP. SR modders please chip in!

I also personally don't like the idea of giving him a spike point as he's never used a straight razor and in my mind its going to be much easier to cut yourself with a point like that, so I may also give him a plain honed GD66 just for him to start with

You could always mute the toe a little.

 

[bpm5cm]

@Cal that's the exact image I showed him. But a google image search of spike point razor shows other results. I did think about just giving it a slit round over just on the point

 

[Cal]

@Cal that's the exact image I showed him. But a google image search of spike point razor shows other results.

IME razor terminology is a bit of a minefield. Someone with razor knowledge calls X Y, because that's what someone else with more razor knowledge told him... so eventually all the newbies are calling X Y and it sticks. It's like propaganda, if you tell the lie often enough it becomes the new truth. Of course it's a Y.

I'm sure we both know what a square looks like and what a spike looks like. Rant over.

 

[ajkel64]

Thanks for showing us the Points photo and description @Cal, I had no idea what was being spoken about. Now I do and I have learnt something new today.

 

[bpm5cm]

Thanks for showing us the Points photo and description @Cal, I had no idea what was being spoken about. Now I do and I have learnt something new today.

Sorry, I should've included that in my post. Since I'm fairly new to all of this, I assume everyone knows at least as much or more than I do. But I also go deep down the rabbit hole on google when I get into something

 

[mr_houston]

He likes the spike point (at an angle, there seems to be some controversy over whether spike means square or tapered). For this, would it be better to try to cut the angle with a rotary tool and cutting disc, or to sand/grind it to shape?

Coming from someone who had limited tools and expertise, I did all the work on the end by grinding to shape.