Started in on a "comes in three colors of scales" inexpensive Chinese razor today (not a Gold Dollar, alas). After several thousand passes on my King Deluxe 300 stone (hard, fast cutting, pretty coarse) I have mostly set a bevel on about 2/3 of the edge.
This thing is HARD - I'd restored a beaten up plane blade in half this time, sharpening the entire bevel of a 2 5/8" wide blade!
Blade is slightly warped but the biggest issue is that the toe is slightly thinner than the toe, with the result that the factory bevel grind is way off on one side, gonna be grinding on this on a while yet.
However, at the rate it's working off, it's gonna hold a decent edge a long time. No signs of trouble at the edge where I do actually have an apex other than some remnants of a foil edge (I've been working it 50 strokes a side for a while, will get rid of the mess on the edge when I switch to a Bester 1200 eventually).
Sometime this week I should be a decent bevel, I'm on vacation....
Peter
This thing is HARD - I'd restored a beaten up plane blade in half this time, sharpening the entire bevel of a 2 5/8" wide blade!
Blade is slightly warped but the biggest issue is that the toe is slightly thinner than the toe, with the result that the factory bevel grind is way off on one side, gonna be grinding on this on a while yet.
However, at the rate it's working off, it's gonna hold a decent edge a long time. No signs of trouble at the edge where I do actually have an apex other than some remnants of a foil edge (I've been working it 50 strokes a side for a while, will get rid of the mess on the edge when I switch to a Bester 1200 eventually).
Sometime this week I should be a decent bevel, I'm on vacation....
Peter