Thread: About Blues and Yellows

Originally Posted by kelbro

Nice post. Help me out here. From what I read, I'm assuming that if you had a natural combo you would use the yellow coticule (maybe with slurry) first and follow it with the blue. Is that correct?

You have that backwards. Blue with slurry, then yellow (with slurry if you want, then water) is the typical progression.

That is typical, Joke, but if Bart is going from the coticule with slurry TO the DMT 1200, then that means that he feels the Coticule with slurry is faster than the DMT, which is pretty dang atypical. Plus, he was asked explicitly about this, and confirmed it in a few posts previous.

Recall that he went Coticule w/ slurry --> DMT 1200 --> Naniwa 5000 --> Naniwa 10000 --> Coticule w/ plain water

Originally Posted by joke1176

You have that backwards. Blue with slurry, then yellow (with slurry if you want, then water) is the typical progression.

Exactly my point. That's how I do it. But my take on his post is the opposite.

Bart, very useful post! I enjoyed reading it!

I'm going to add the following website to this topic : Zowada Custom Knives - Stone Surfaces

Hi-res pictures of the bevels and edges of razors made after honing on different types of whetstones.

Please don't forget to click on the links at the bottom of the page!!!

Originally Posted by ArdennesCoticule

Bart, very useful post! I enjoyed reading it!

I'm going to add the following website to this topic : Zowada Custom Knives - Stone Surfaces

Hi-res pictures of the bevels and edges of razors made after honing on different types of whetstones.

Please don't forget to click on the links at the bottom of the page!!!

I don't think I've found a magnified pic of an edge that's been honed and then stropped. Know where I can find one? Or can you even tell the difference? Some of those edges look pretty smooth.