Quote Originally Posted by Bram View Post
I guess the big question is, what is it you do on your coticule? I would think you would do a dulicut coming from a 4K level hone, right? if you use only water I think going to your BBW would be adventagious otherwise not so much.
I've never come straight from a 4K stone to a coti. I go from 4K to a Welsh DT, usually graded at around 8K, but with a wide range of cutting depending on the slurry. Typically, I'll run from thick slurry through pure water on all the stones.

What I did on the last razor I honed was to go from the 4K to the BBW, then to the coti, and finally to a Thuringian. Worked well, but I don't know if it was was the most efficient way to do it. Going from 4K to DT (8K) to coti also works pretty well

a BBW has fewer garnets and those garnets are a bit bigger on average the those of your yellow coti.
Ah, I had not previously heard that the garnets in the BBW are on average a bit bigger than those of the yellow coti. That would seem to make sense of the fact that the BBW seems to work pretty well in a progression from 4K to BBW to coti.

Thanks for the feedback!

Joe