Thread: coticule help

Originally Posted by tintin

My line is straight. Didn't they glue BBW to coti's?

Yes and No

Some are BBW and NOT always of the highest quality, some are simple slate of low quality, you said yours was making a Purple slurry so it is probably a BBW..

Pictures would help, you're only sure with a natural combo, and still many variation in there. I use my BBWs pre-Coticule with excellent results, very good pre-finisher ime. But I only have natural combos, so they're mostly good quality.

As to what I said earlier, when Bart, an experienced Coticule honer, honed a razor for me in person on water, I wasn't even that impressed with the edge, being used to an Escher edge.

So I now finish on my Coticules with lather with great results; as said I used (olive) oil before, but that didn't do it for me. But, I just now used some fine machine oil, some sort of mineral oil, and that gave me a killer edge. I much prefer these edges instead of finishing on water. But to each their own, that's just what you gotta find out. Some like Coticule edges on water, some on oil, lather and some absolutely hate them.

Shaving, your skin, steel, etc., as have been mentioned, is so subjective and it's always a trial and error, what works for others, might work for you or it might not. Only one way to find out .

A lot of the Coticules I have seen over here (Belgium) that were used by people in the past for razors seemed to have been used with oil.


Sidenote, after severely thinning out my collection I am left with only Heljestrand razors.
But reading how well Sheffield steel reacts to the Coticule, I might re-consider adding one to my collection

Originally Posted by TristanLudloz1928273

Sidenote, after severely thinning out my collection I am left with only Heljestrand razors.
But reading how well Sheffield steel reacts to the Coticule, I might re-consider adding one to my collection

Get a Wade & Butcher FBU in nice condition. You won't regret it. Here's my bragging gaggle; just what I have restored (I have many more). The trifecta: wedge, celebrated hollow ground and (factory?) reground


Sorry, off topic I know.

Paul, that wedge looks like a real beast!

Originally Posted by DZEC

Paul, that wedge looks like a real beast!

It is; and one of my best shavers and in a foot race with the other two for my favorite.