Thread: Slurry Dulling

I'm not sure the Dulling/Limiting terms are interchangeable. The OP asked about 'dulling'. The answer is very simple, the term 'dulling' is correct because it was termed for people learning to use a coticule, who would take their basically shave ready razor that was beginning to pull, raise a slurry and hone, and then find it was worse than when they began. Hence the slurry dulled the blade. It is definitely so when you look backwards, i.e. from sharp to dull, and not forwards - from dull to sharp. The term 'limiting' can only be used from dull to sharp. Both good terms, imho.