Thread: Coticule purchase

Lovely stone!

Coticules are one of those hones everyone has to try. They are all slightly different but most can give you a good edge. Have fun playing/experimenting with it.

Coticules are really the only hone needed if you are so inclined to accept the fact that they're tricky to learn and you are NOT going to get a J Nat edge if using one. I for one prefer a nice easy to get along with coticule edge to a hyper keen result as that afforded by a J Nat. Actually thinking about unloading all my Naniwa SS stones and going exclusively Belgian. Never got into J Nats..not my style.

Originally Posted by Phoenix51

Coticules are really the only hone needed if you are so inclined to accept the fact that they're tricky to learn and you are NOT going to get a J Nat edge if using one. I for one prefer a nice easy to get along with coticule edge to a hyper keen result as that afforded by a J Nat. Actually thinking about unloading all my Naniwa SS stones and going exclusively Belgian. Never got into J Nats..not my style.

That is precisely what I did.

Originally Posted by Phoenix51

Coticules are really the only hone needed if you are so inclined to accept the fact that they're tricky to learn and you are NOT going to get a J Nat edge if using one. I for one prefer a nice easy to get along with coticule edge to a hyper keen result as that afforded by a J Nat. Actually thinking about unloading all my Naniwa SS stones and going exclusively Belgian. Never got into J Nats..not my style.

Yeah, I went through that, but don't get rid of your other hones/stones......you'll be surprised at how your tastes/preferences will change as you use, and progress through the different media, hones and stones, and edge preferences.

Like a coti edge today and then a Naniwa tomorrow, and then...well...Jnat, etc. on and on!! It's a trip, but educational and, well, fun!!

Just saying...keep your stones and options open....they'll change over time!!

Regards,

Howard

I've tried 3 or 4 cotis, and not one produced an edge I enjoyed. Thinking it was me, not the stones, I had a W&B FBU sent off to glen for a pro honing. Turns out it's not an issue with my honing, I just don't like coti edges. I hear so many people rave about them, but I just don't get a good shave with them. Now my jnats and gokumyo 20k provide excellent shaves. The funny thing is I always search for them on ebay, maybe hoping to find one with a cheap buy it now, in the hopes that I'll find one that is as good as all the hype.

Hello to All,

I really like using my coticules For me, however, the edge off of them isn't quite 'sharp' enough for my whiskers.

Lately, I have been using my coticules as a pre-finisher, before finishing on my JNat (Shoubudani Asagi) (using first a Tsushima black nagura, and then a Ozuku Asagi tomo nagura).

I note that under a microscope, my coticules seem to leave a very similar finish to my JNat - a sort of very fine 'bead-blasted' look, so I thought the stones would be complimentary.

This, for me, has been spectacularly successful way of using the coticules

Good luck with your stone - coticules are really fun to experiment with

Have fun

Best regards

Russ

For me there is two types of coticules - 1 those that are prefinishers , but cannot give a quality shaving edge / or you can feel the stone / and 2 type is those that can play both pre and finishers . No mater if they are soft or hard , they are fine to finish and leave a sharp edge .
If you find from the second type dont sell it never , the other 80 % of those stones can be sell , change or gifted .
Usualy the good fine BBW is more intresting as it gives sharper edge .

Originally Posted by Phoenix51

Coticules are really the only hone needed if you are so inclined to accept the fact that they're tricky to learn and you are NOT going to get a J Nat edge if using one. I for one prefer a nice easy to get along with coticule edge to a hyper keen result as that afforded by a J Nat. Actually thinking about unloading all my Naniwa SS stones and going exclusively Belgian. Never got into J Nats..not my style.

Originally Posted by SirStropalot

Yeah, I went through that, but don't get rid of your other hones/stones......you'll be surprised at how your tastes/preferences will change as you use, and progress through the different media, hones and stones, and edge preferences.

Like a coti edge today and then a Naniwa tomorrow, and then...well...Jnat, etc. on and on!! It's a trip, but educational and, well, fun!!

Just saying...keep your stones and options open....they'll change over time!!

Regards,

Howard

Ditto. Did anyone reading ever sell, give away, or throw away something they hadn't used in a long time ? Then find as time passed that they had to go out and buy it again ? Been there and done that more than once.

I've gone through periods where I was strictly using one set of stones, be they natural, synthetic or a combination of the two, or another. I leave one or another in the cabinet and find myself going back to it from time to time.

I've posted before that I think the reason so many pro barbers, as well as individual shavers, preferred a coticule edge is because it is a 'safer' edge. A honemiester I knew years ago sold his lately acquired 8x3 natural combo to me because it didn't get the edge 'scary sharp.' Well it certainly didn't but it left a really smooth, keen and comfortable shaving edge.

They don't call them 'scary' sharp for nothing. Those barbers, shaving other people day in and day out, had little use for scary sharp. I like scary sharp once in awhile, and I have the skill, and the tools to get there, but sometimes I prefer comfortable to scary.