Thread: ONE COTICULE HONING

I would like to say a few things here,

One, Bart, Thank You!!! for taking on a hard row to hoe...
You are trying to show a consistent way of using a stone and more power to you...
For those of you that haven't been around for a long time this happened a few years back when certain "rebels" talked about using progressive honing techniques instead of pyramids...
The main point is, can you make it repeatable and consistent???

As more people that own Coticules are trying these methods, more ideas will be introduced and techniques will be adapted, or it will die out because it will not work except for a master at that stone...

The one side honing technique has actually been around for quite awhile too, doing laps on one side of the razor than switching to the other, in fact look for Toxik's vid, he shows that exact same technique...

The Japanese Honing techniques have also been around for years for razors and longer in general. Some people call it different names but it is still the same technique.. I use it myself quite often in conjunction with Lynn's circle techniques on problem bevels....

As to setting bevels, now this is something I actually know quite a bit about, first off it is not a race, it is only about accuracy and getting a consistent sharp edge from heel to toe... Amazingly simple thing, that is the bane of all newbies to honing...
Now I could actually tell you what the fastest way to get a bevel set is, I have tried just about every stone out there for doing it, and just about every technique you can think of, but really fastest doesn't matter to anybody other than a Honemiester that is looking at a rack of razors that need honing in front of him...Those of you that are only honing for yourself can take all the time you want to get a proper bevel set, but here is the problem with that as I see it... A newbie to honing doesn't take all the time in the world, and as soon as any part of that blade feels sharp they move to the next phase of the honing process and that is where the whole thing falls apart...The one thing that everyone agrees on, is without a proper bevel not one of these systems work...

Anyway thanks again to Bart for getting this all in writing and pics and vids...
The rest of you, hey give it time, it will either work into another method of consistent honing, or it will be left to only the masters of the Coticule to play with....

end of my .02 cents of rambling