Thread: Coticule or Shapton?

Yeah I messed up and used my Escher blue/green after my coticule and got a really nice shave before I read that and found it wouldn't do me any good. I just re-read the fellow's ad and he is saying , as noted by Neil and Kevint, that the synthetics leave the wire edge or burr and the Escher polishes it off.

On the following the coticule with an Escher he is saying there is no point as the coticule leaves as fine an edge as the Escher so it is redundant. I don't think that is necessarily so. Might depend on the stone. I know that Lynn often follows whatever stones he is using with a blue/geen Escher. I think that includes coticules, at least until the Shapton 16K came along.

The way you guys explain it it makes better text, didnt think a wire edge was that desirable on a razor...thats why we strop!... but I knew that...I really did!

The holder is for honing only. I don't know anything about the case. As for storage I keep the hones in the original cardboard boxes they came in. The boxes are fairly heavy and do a good job protecting the hones. Just dry them before you put them away.