Thread: Coticule honing video coming.

Very nice video! I'd like to be able to download it for when I'll start into the STR8s, but it's quite ok to view from google also (even with the reduced resolution you were talking about, did not bother at all).
Now, I have one question: about the song on the video, can you please tell the band and the title? Thanks!

Uhm....which one? I used several since the video is quite long.

1st song: Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page "Come with me" Godzilla remix
2nd song: Sum41 "Intro" and "No reason" off their Chuck album
3rd song: Coldplay "Politik" off their A rush of cold blood to the head album

As for downloadable you can e-mail or pm me and I'll send the file to you.

Great video, I didnt hear the accent either. Got this one saved

Great Video, it shows an experienced straight razor shaver who has personalized his own style into honing. Main things, blade flat, x pattern, light pressure, and a consistant stroke. This is a great stone to keep a shave ready razor, shave ready.

On a blunt edge you may have to go to a lower grit but that's it.

Great video.

Originally Posted by dkrus

Great video, I didnt hear the accent either. Got this one saved

That's what I meant to say earlier!

Great vid Alex. And thanks for inviting us into your home!

Oh, and since you weren't counting, the least I could do was view again and count for you. I believe you stropped:

• 106 times on the linen (including the demo passes)
• 62 times on the leather.

Cheers!
M.

Thank you for taking the time to make and post this video. It is interesting to me because your method seems to go against most of the advice that I have received from the "experienced" members on the forum.

I was always under the impression that the coticule was a high grit finishing stone, not an "all purpose" stone. Did the razor already have a decent bevel before you started? Maybe the increased pressure that you used in the beginning was enough to create the bevel but I am a little skeptical. On the other hand I heard that experienced barbers used to use pressure on a medium hone to sharpen the razor then lightened up on the same stone to polish the edge, so maybe you achieved something similar.

Also I was not counting the number of strokes that you used; however, it seems that what you did would easily result in an overhoned edge. But, if your method produced a shave ready razor for you then that is what matters though, not the honing "theories".

Thank you for the kind comments.

As for overhoned edges. I really would not know since I've NEVER produced one. To be honest I'm always a bit surprised when I read about them because I've not experienced one myself.

I do sometimes use a rougher stone. But usually when the razor is a full hollow it's simply not needed. Extra strokes on my coticule is enought at a time like that. Maybe my coticule is simply not as fine as other people's. I wouldn't know. All I know is I figured this method out for myself and it works.

Interesting video. Nicely done.

I too noticed an absence of traditional testing methods while honing and stropping.

And I noticed that you anchor your strop with a length of cord. This allowed your strop to bounce quite a bit. Although it seems to work for you, it could be problematic for a beginer should one copy that setup.

Also it appears, as far as video sequence goes, that you go directly from hone to linen then leather.


Scott

Nice job! I like these short and simple, purpose specific tutorials. - John