Thread: Learning on coticule?

I wouldn't worry much about the slurry stone not being lapped. Being uneven it will make slurry better than if it were dead flat. By virtue of use the flatter that slurry stone will become. Walla, your slurry stone will turn into a touchup stone. Then you'll need to tilt it a touch if you need a thicker slurry.

Chasmo

Originally Posted by Chasmo

I wouldn't worry much about the slurry stone not being lapped. Being uneven it will make slurry better than if it were dead flat. By virtue of use the flatter that slurry stone will become. Walla, your slurry stone will turn into a touchup stone. Then you'll need to tilt it a touch if you need a thicker slurry.

Chasmo

Good point, hadn't thought about it flattening itself over time.

It looks like it may be from La Dressante layer. Looks like No. 80 in the Coticule vault. Beautiful stone!

http://www.coticule.be/coticule-samp.../items/33.html

-Dan

Originally Posted by Wxman2000

Had my shave with it this morning and I'm very pleased with the results. Got a DFS, though at 430AM I haven't gotten a BBS with any of my razors. It was a pleasant, comfortable shave with an alum burn comparable to any of my other razors


I did not do anything with it off the coticule, just 60 on wool and 60 on leather and paired it with my Mitchell's wool fat soap. Kind of proud of myself!

Congratulation Aaron! Nothing to it! In reality, I think you did your homework.

If you want to see if that's the max sharpness you going to get from that stone, you could do set of 20 very light x strokes more on water only. Shave and repeat, till no improvement on the shave.

By the way, beautiful stone. This is what I'm playing with.







The last two are BBW. Only one is mine. They are all different in feel, speed and finish. The best finisher so far is the one with the red specks, which belongs to Hirlau, member here.

I believe the Zulu would be a nice addition to your Coti. My advise to you is that for now, you stop on the Coti and shave, and don't move to the Zulu till you get a decent shave.

Double O

Is this legal? This is hone porn isn't it?

Chasmo

Originally Posted by Chasmo

Is this legal? This is hone porn isn't it?

Chasmo

Let's see yours!

I'm thinking mine looks like a mix between double o's middle stone and his larger slurry/touch up stone, and maybe chasm o's far left bout in the second pic. It has some of the grainy looking stripes and quite a bit of the reddish speckled parts to it. Either way, it's a lot more of a figured patten than what I thought from the pics on the superior shave website that I selected it from. Very Pleased with the looks and performance so far.

I still can't believe that my first attempt with it on a neglected razor came out as well as it did. I fully intended to mess with it a bit, then send it out to someone for an initial honing that I could then maintain.

I do wish it were a BBW combo, but I suppose in the beginning this is better since there is only one stone to work with as opposed to. Fiddling with both at the same time.

The BBW aren't all that expensive yet: http://www.ardennes-coticule.be/shop...blue-whetstone

Chasmo