Thread: Advice on purchasing a coticule

The coticule arrived yesterday, so like any kid with a new toy I had to play with it. I decided to try it out on my tatricer 5/8, it already had a good bevel on it and cut hairs along the full edge. I worked up a light slurry and started to hone, did 10 passes each way and diluted to clear, I did a total of 60 passes. Then stripped 40 passes. So off to the bathroom for the final test, it did shave pretty good, not as comfortable as my normal progression, but not all too bad for the first run on this stone.

I think tomorrow I'll start over on the raloe, from setting a new bevel and then the 4000/8000 and finished on the coticule. I think that I just got excited and jumped ahead of myself believing that the edge was as good as I thought. Under a 40x loupe the edge did look very smooth. Oh well I guess I'll just have to practice this stone for a lil while to learn its secrets.