Originally Posted by
gary haywood
the japaneese stone , certainly gives a closer shave than my coticules. my coticules give a very forgiving nice /smooth shave, i would say they both work well together. the one thing i noticed straight away was the level of close ness. , i've got anoter dovo special to test, its a brandnew razor, factory edge shaved , but was'nt all that smooth. i've honed that razor purley on coticule. i no for a fact this wil now shave 5x better . then i will hit the jap stone for my usaul slurry to water or misty slurry on j nat. After that i intend to finish on y escher with light slurry, just to see how this works, sham does this progression, with ice edges, i will see how that goes.
gary