Gold Dollar restoration/mod video

[Leatherneck]

Has a Gold dollar video been done, highlighting the most common flaws and how to correct to those flaws? I've been looking around and haven't found one.

If not, can one of our GD tinkerers do a demonstration video? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appreciate it.

I have several 66's and have read a ton of stuff, but quite honestly, I'm also one of those visual learners. Video better than still shots.

I know some say since they are so inexpensive, just jump into it and go at it. Some people simply aren't comfortable doing that.

Slash's videos on honing on the films has given, for me, some invaluable visual knowledge that reading alone hasn't done. The only thing better would be someone around here who has worked on a 66 for some one-on-one tutoring. (Anyone?)

Also, on a different subject, where are folks buying the bags of coarse sanding drums for the rotary tools? All I have found around here are the Sanding/grinding kits that have the drums and all the other attachments. I understood that people were buying just the drums. I may very well have misunderstood.

Thank-you, everyone.

 

[bongofury]

Hi Kevin,

I buy my rotary drums / flap wheels (all sorts of dremel stuff) here:
LINK: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/181036430966?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649

 

[Slash McCoy]

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...ld-Slash-quot-7-day-set?highlight=gold+dollar

Not a video but should give some idea of a starting place. Note that I have changed my design a bit from when I posted those pics. I don't make the notch anymore where the shoulder was. I take off more heel and give it sort of a semi Bismarckian sweep. I thin the spine and thin the shank just a bit more than the spine. I don't do barber notches or jimps, usually. But the pics show one way of attacking the heel, etc.

Maybe some day I will do a video but I still haven't done a general straight razor use and maintenance video yet, which I want to do so I can include it in my soon to be announced and released ИƧЯƧK, or Newbie Straight Razor Shaving Kit.

Here is a more recent GD conversion:


I fair the spine into the shank a lot more subtly now. Also makes it easier to hone.

 

[Seraphim]

Slash, you are a sanding fool! That's some mighty fine mirror finish you got on that there GD!

 

[Slash McCoy]

Slash, you are a sanding fool! That's some mighty fine mirror finish you got on that there GD!

Thanks! FWIW That one will probably be the one I select for my 5000 post PIF.