Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
Gary, forgive me for giving my unsolicited opinion. If all that you have is a coticule than that is what you have to do. OTOH, if you had a 1k stone or better yet a DMT D8E 1200 you would have had the bevel set and been done with a 1/4 of the time and effort. If you are doing it for the experience that is fine too. Different strokes for different folks.
I do own 1k norton and 1200 dmt pluus 4k 8k plus blue and yellows but i have always wanted to achieve a shave ready razor on the one hone belgium yellow so it for experiance realy as ilike trying differant method it does seem the long way round though. plus i like honing