Thread: Touching up on a coticule

What is your technique for touching up on a coticule? I've dedicated my peach and green La Verte for this purpose

If the razor is just pulling a bit, I work it with plain water until the edge comes back up. If it needs a bit more, I'll go to a light slurry, like skim milk, and dilute to water as per normal. However, the easiest path is to touch it up on water as soon as it starts to pull as this removes the least amount of steel and only takes a moment. You can also try lather after water - it can pop the edge up just a tad on some stones.

Second what sqzbxr said. Exactly the same for me.

I try to stay away from slurry on mine, but they are both quite hard and have a hard time working back to the apex on water even with dilution. I either touch up water only or if it's too far gone I go with a unicot.

Depends on the coticule. Usually I'll try it on clear water. And if the razor doesn't undercut the water then I'll give the stone 1 rub with a slurry stone. The slurry will be there even if you can't see it. Hone on that until the edge comes back and finish on water.

First look at the edge with magnification, if you see chipping use a thicker slurry, finish on clear water. As said a lot depend on the stone and the condition of the edge.

Generally I go to a 12 SS to remove any micro chipping, then finish on a coticule.

On my La Verte, I like to run a slurry stone over the wet hone once - or maybe twice at most --- and very lightly, and then hone on it about 30-60 times, before washing off the hone and the razor and honing on water for 30 strokes. That seems to bring back any edge that's just beginning to fade.

Coticules can vary tremendously depending on when and where they are mined.

For mine some water and that's all I need.

Water only for me I will use my coticule with water every 6/7 th shave perform 30/50 strokes. I think with a coticule you probably best to catch the edge before it drops of or touch up at the earliest signs of loss of some smoothness.

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