Thread: Hone of the Day

Well, TBH, My only Coticule is an old rock. Works well on old Sheffields.
Naturals! You never know unless you try?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Much like hard American steel, stainless likes the uniformity and fast-cutting of synthetics.

FME coticule and Escher have been a waste of time with them. JMO.

I pretty much agree with you Tom. Having restored and honed more than a few Americans these past couple of years, I find the consistency of using a progression of synthetic hones on these blades to be what works the best for me. Fast and predictable. The one caveat is that I have an extremely aggressive and fast cutting Coti that I almost always use to quickly set a bevel and then the blade goes to the synthetics.

Of course...on the Sheffield's I always finish with a Coti/ Escher combo. Works a treat on the softer steel!

I've been slowly experimenting with this Dovo razor, using different natural finishing stones. It's been interesting! Today I finished it on a coticule from Ardennes. Before this I finished it on two different Thuringians (a Celebrated Razor Hone and a Genuine Water Hone), and after this I have two other coticules and an Arkansas stone to try out.

Oh Joel! YOU are a glutton for punishment!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Oh Joel! YOU are a glutton for punishment!

Ha! Possibly.

I'm actually trying to just get to know my stones better, and in a somewhat systematic way (taking notes, of course). I now am able to get consistently keen and comfortable edges with a synthetic progression, so the natural stones are the next step I guess.

I kind of accumulated all these stones within a pretty short period of time, so I don't know any of them well yet (one of the coticules is a loaner from a friend). I figured I'd start with an "overview" of them all, which will hopefully give me an idea of which ones I enjoy working with or not (I already know I very much enjoy the Celebrated Razor Hone). After that I'll get more in depth with each stone.

I find it very fun and therapeutic! Just like the rest of this crazy hobby.

I noticed my La Grise Coticule being extremely slow.

I'm honing all my razors on a 1K -> 5K -> 8K -> 12K Naniwa progression and finish it off on the Suehiro 20K => then I go to my La Grise under running water and voila.

Foolproof maxed out Coticule edges for me. I've honed 10 razors this way and get a super keen and very smooth Coticule edge much better than I could ever get before.
Sounds like overkill and it probably is with the 20K, but it works like a charm and makes the work on my Coticule fast and easy.

I do like my La Grise edges over my other Coticules much better in all honesty, some Coticules I just don't like that much.

https://imgur.com/a/wM6ZP

Originally Posted by sharptonn

You fellas with your fancy hones!

Behind in my honing. 4 across the 4/8 and 4 more in the queue.

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Is that a kiita Tom? Lol.

Originally Posted by Steve56

Is that a kiita Tom? Lol.

.... Yes! Poor man's coticule as well. You just have to believe!

I think I need to believe harder!

Close your eyes, Jerry! Click your heels 3 times.......There's no place like hone, no place like hone.
There it is!