Thread: Where to buy coticule in Belgium

I forgot one: taping the spine is unnecessary.

Seriously. The guy honed a TI damast (750 euro thank you very much) without taping the spine.

Originally Posted by Bruno

-1-2 minutes on the yellow is all you need to make a razor shaveready.

YES if you already did the 4k and 8k. So it is not a wrong statment

Originally Posted by Bruno

- use red paste after the yellow coticule (red paste is coarser than yellow, so this doesn't make sense)

The color doesn't mean anything. So you can't know if they are right or wrong.

Originally Posted by Bruno

- the primary purpose of a linen strop is to clean away any red paste that might cling to a razor.

Maybe it is not the best way to use it, but i certainly can do it

Originally Posted by Bruno

- keep the strop hanging slack when you strop.

Bill recommends that too.

Originally Posted by Bruno

- if the edge of a razor is even a bit damaged, you have to let it be reground before you can use it again, or throw it away.

Depending what "bit" means, if bit = 2mm deep so they are right, if bit = 0.01 mm so they are wrong

Originally Posted by Bruno

- using a blue stone is almost identical to a yellow if you use a yellow rubbing stone.

Wrong if "blue stone" = "Belgian Blue Stone"

Originally Posted by Bruno

- use the TNT to determine if the edge is shaveready or not.

Wrong, if you do that you will know if it WAS shaveready...he hehe

Originally Posted by Bruno

- lapping a stone is not necessary (at least, he never mentioned lapping)

If they never said that, they didn't say that it is not necessary.


The most important thing is that this is an art.....everyone of us will have our only best way to do it.....

Originally Posted by vulcano

YES if you already did the 4k and 8k. So it is not a wrong statment

Teach said that you needed ONLY the yellow.

Originally Posted by vulcano

The color doesn't mean anything. So you can't know if they are right or wrong.

I asked here, and the dovo red past was coarser than the yellow, was the concensus.

Originally Posted by vulcano

Maybe it is not the best way to use it, but i certainly can do it

But it has other uses as well.

Originally Posted by vulcano

Bill recommends that too.

everyone else on this forum recommends a taut strop, incl Lynn and Tony as far as I understood.

Originally Posted by vulcano

Depending what "bit" means, if bit = 2mm deep so they are right, if bit = 0.01 mm so they are wrong

I stropped my razor badly on a pasted strop. The edge was gone, but definitely nothing that 30 minutes on the norton doesn't fix.
On the coticule it took about 8 hours.

His advice for that edge was to throw away the razor or send it to dovo for a regrind

Originally Posted by vulcano

Wrong if "blue stone" = "Belgian Blue Stone"

Belgian blue stone indeed.

Originally Posted by vulcano

Wrong, if you do that you will know if it WAS shaveready...he hehe

I've noticed, yes.

Originally Posted by vulcano

If they never said that, they didn't say that it is not necessary.

It was implied by the fact that they didn't mention it. If I go to a course where the teacher asserts that we will walk out, knowing all you need to know to hone a razor, I would expect that lapping was one of the thing that is worth mentioning.

Originally Posted by vulcano

The most important thing is that this is an art.....everyone of us will have our only best way to do it.....

True. I don't regret taking the course because it showed me lots of things. I may not agree with most of it now, but at least it got me started.
A lot of what he said is valid in the context of razors that only need a light touching up.