Thread: I've got the Belgian "Blues"

I gotta admit I do like the BBW a lot. I only hone on natural stones, since it's my preference.
The BBW has a staple place in my honing routine. Dilutions is what I do as well, and afterwards I go to a coti or escher. It's the perfect hone for perfecting the bevel and reaching maximum keenness.
I can also set bevels with it, but that can be quite time consuming depending on how far off the bevel is; but it's fun to do so!

I just now am in the process of removing a chip from a razor and I'm not sure why, but I'm using my Coti slurry stone on the BBW, it seems to speed up the BBW and it feels great to hone using this method.
It's taking me hours, since it's a big chip, but it's not painfully slow and it feels great to do so.
The polish I get is not bad either! I'm using my BBW since it's a large stone and they're cheap, I'd rather use up some of this stone than of my Coti's ergo my "reasoning", cogito ergo sum, I guess

Nevertheless a BBW is a gorgeous piece of stone to look at, I can do bevel setting to almost finishing with it. I can't quite reach the finish I want on a razor, but it's close.
Wonderful stones, I think I've once dry honed on these a long time ago with satisfying results as well. Now I should try lather some day.

Lovely pieces of rock, functional and beautiful! If only I could find a woman like that

I was advised for my La Lorraine (salm type). That you can finish on oil. I've not used the stone enough to have learnt it yet but I got a decent shave edge on oil with it without any heavy pastes.

I need to play more with it but It certainly seems capable and there was a huge thread over on Coticule.be that got published about a blind test of coticule v/s BBW. The results are actually pretty interesting.

http://www.coticule.be/the-cafeteria/topic/1452.html