Thread: Coticules... ymmv indeed!

I told this before but I'll tell it again. I have a TI super gnome 5/8 that I had honed years ago when I first got it. Needed a touch up and I took the La Veinette and water only. Every 30 x strokes I made a pencil mark on a notepad and stropped and tried HHT. Took over 160 strokes to get to the point where I felt it was as good as I could get it. I got as good a shave out of that razor, sharp/smooth, as I have out of any I've ever shaved with, not matter what it was honed with, or who did the honing.

I normally shave with many different razors but I did a two week rotation between the TI and a Ralf Aust I had gotten from SRD, great razor, and both just kept on trucking for the entire two weeks. I could have shaved with the pair indefinitely but get bored with the same routine, so went back to a lot of variety.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I told this before but I'll tell it again. I have a TI super gnome 5/8 that I had honed years ago when I first got it. Needed a touch up and I took the La Veinette and water only. Every 30 x strokes I made a pencil mark on a notepad and stropped and tried HHT. Took over 160 strokes to get to the point where I felt it was as good as I could get it. I got as good a shave out of that razor, sharp/smooth, as I have out of any I've ever shaved with, not matter what it was honed with, or who did the honing.

Again agree!

My prized LV's are quite aggressive on slurry, but painfully slow in the finishing mode, on plain water only. They require a lot of laps to get there. And, therein lay my initial problems ..... Just not giving enough strokes in the final stage.
But, like any stone, it takes lots of experiments to unlock the secrets hidden within ..