Thread: Coticule producing good results but am searching for that perfect edge

I don't find you get uber keen edges from cotis. I have used a few they are tricky stones to learn and can slurry dull. Even when I have had blinding hht results the shave feels butter soft, a kind of delightfull dullness which is very forgiving. I like coticules and prefer these edges, I think that's how they are supposed to be.
A tip if you want to eek out a bit more keeness and keep that smoothness is to max out on coti, go to paddle strop loaded with crox (TI crox is my favourite) say 10 to 20 light laps. Then come back onto coti with lather for 10 laps. Shave see what you get, go another 10 laps on lather till you dial in you smoothness you prefer.

My 10 cents
Joe

Originally Posted by dcaven

I think I am going to go with the Naniwa 12k and the Suehiro 20k.

Can't go wrong with that!

Me personally, I'm fascinated with the different finishers and honing process. Recently I tried my first all natural progression with a blade. After setting the bevel with a Chosera 1K (well, almost all natural progression) I went to the Coti. Slury and diluting. After many laps, I was satisfied with the sharpness to move to my turi. The sharpness improved and the shave was very good, however, not as good as 16k follow by the same turi. But it was very satisfying to be able to get such a shave with only naturals.

My friend Hirlau honed a blade on his Coti for me, and the shave was comparable to my Escher shaves. That tells me two things, that he's a better honer than me and/or that he has a better stone (Coti) than me. I think is both. He told me his Coti reflects a lot of garmets when it catches the light, mine doesn't. And his been at honing longer than I have. As a matter of fact, he gave me the first sit down lesson on honing.

So there! Back to what Hirlau said on his post. Depends on the honer and the stone (specially naturals).

Double O