Thread: ONE COTICULE HONING

A very big thanks to Currentman!
Before anything else, my motivation for laying out this procedure was to provide a method that delivers an excellent and comfortable edge without much learning curve, performed on just one Coticule, which is often the only hone found in the home of many straight razor users in my part of the world.
Currentman's post, and those of most others that shared their outcome so far, confirms that it works on a variety of Coticules and razors, and most importantly: with a variety of different hands pushing the razor over the hone.

Currentman's post also learns that there indeed are differences between the stones, and that it takes some experimentation to find the ideal lap counts, etc...
It probably also helps for any honing rookie to futurely adopt one of the finer edge probing methods, instead of the rather crude arm hair test, in order to maximize the results and minimize steel removal.

As for the results being slightly different from the "honemeister edges", I think that's true. It's a naked edge of a hone. I believe most honemeisters tailor the edge a bit further after that. Pjrage shared some interesting observations in that field, several posts back. I personally shave with the edge well stropped right off the Coticule, but that's all a matter of personal preference.

More about that in the next post.

Bart.