Thread: About Blues and Yellows

Ok. Just going off his post...his subjective findings from using them.

Originally Posted by desol

Ok. Just going off his post...his subjective findings from using them.

HUH????
You must be reading something different from me, granted Bart and I don't see eye to eye on a ton of stuff (I actually don't believe that a Coticule is magical) but I do agree with his statements here...
Again this is a very old thread and much of this got very blurry after more testing...




I like to think of hones in three categories:

1. Hones for bevel formation: DMT's 325 600 1200, Shapton 1K and 2K, Coticules with slurry,...

2. Hones for edge refinement: DMT 8000, Norton 4K, Shapton 4K and 8K, Belgian Blue with slurry,...

3. Hones for edge polishing: Chinese 12K, Shapton 16K and 30K, Nakayama, Coticule with water,..


and here


Maurice Celis told me in an e-mail, that Coticules have a garnet size of 5 to 15 micron and Blues
a size of 10 to 20 micron. In my logic the size of the garnets defines the scratch pattern of a hone.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

HUH????

Calm down. I'm new to this stuff...

Originally Posted by Catrentshaving

But if you actually read the final post from 2008, the BBW is not a finisher...so depending on how you want to look at it, it's not a "better razor hone"

Ah... i just read the first post from him...where he said he found he got a finer edge from the slower BBW. Anyway...thanks guys for the clarification. Let's put this one back to bed now.

D.

There was one thing in here I was hoping to get clarification on. That was the statement that you could go to a higher grit rated stone that might have left a 'keen crisp harsh' edge, go to the yellow side of a coticule and 'smooth' it out without losing all the keen properties from the previous rock!?! Pretty sure I'm gunna try going from my Ozuku to the yellow for 10 light perfect x strokes to see what happens to my shave!

Originally Posted by brooksie967

There was one thing in here I was hoping to get clarification on. That was the statement that you could go to a higher grit rated stone that might have left a 'keen crisp harsh' edge, go to the yellow side of a coticule and 'smooth' it out without losing all the keen properties from the previous rock!?! Pretty sure I'm gunna try going from my Ozuku to the yellow for 10 light perfect x strokes to see what happens to my shave!

In that case don't forget to add a pinch of magic wiffle dust to the water...

As far as I can see, an edge from a 30k shapton glass stone, for example is an edge from a 30k shapton glass stone, and and edge from a coticule is an edge from a coticule. If the coticule is used last, its a coticule edge.

But then again, I'm one of those confounded freethinkers banned forever from the church of Our Saviour the Coticule.

Come on in, Brooksie - the waters lovely...!

Regards,
Neil

Well, i mean, it's not so difficult to figure out. It's a naturally occuring stone...vs something man made.

Nature vs Man. Man loses.

Nature has the edge....so to speak.

Originally Posted by desol

Well, i mean, it's not so difficult to figure out. It's a naturally occuring stone...vs something man made.

Nature vs Man. Man loses.

Nature has the edge....so to speak.

Tell that to the Dodos!



Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

In that case don't forget to add a pinch of magic wiffle dust to the water...


Regards,
Neil

Stop being silly. That is just a fairy tale.
Eye of newt otoh is proven to work

Thomas Wolfe wrote a book, 'Only The Dead Know Coticules' ..... or maybe it was a short story .... might have been only the dead know Brooklyn ..... I'm sure you could google it ......