Thread: coticle v. pasted strop?

Originally Posted by Laager

No worries. Tell me which company you own that manufactures the paste and supplies you for near nada.

A 10 cent sheet of paper vs $8 - $10 for paste? Never going to convince me of the creative economics you're using.

You don't even have to be creative with the accounting.

Initial cost of using a pasted paddle:
$30 for paddle, $8 for tube of paste
Incremental cost of refreshing a paddle:
$0 - the tube is still going.


Initial cost of using a hone:
$80-$300 for hone
Incremental cost of lapping a hone:
$0.10/sheet of sandpaper, increasing over the years with inflation.
(alternatively)
$35 one-time cost for lapping hone.


It almost doesn't matter how expensive the paste is. It's only the first pasting that is expensive, after that they're free.

I'm sorry, but that's quite ridiculous.

A tube of paste doesn't last a lifetime. There's a finite amount in the tube.

There's a finite amount of years in a life too. The question is whether the paste runs out before your life does, and this is simply a question of use rates.

I have used maybe a millimeter of the chapstick tube of chrome oxide I got from handamerican last June, and have pasted several paddles with it as I've been experimenting with different paddle materials since then. In normal use, a paddle would need refreshing 1-2x per year. I don't think "lifetime" is an excessive approximation.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I am a stones kind of man (queue 'sympathy for the devil', best rock and roll song ever )
I use stones for everything, ranging from taking out nicks and chips to finishing after the Norton. But that is because I like working with stones on metal. I am even experimenting with using small stones to polish the blade instead of using dremel + polishing compound.

As with most things here, there are several ways to end up at the same place.

Hey Bruno, have you ever thought about what might happen if you got a cheap finishing hone and applied some diamond paste to the hone the way the pasted strop guys do it? What do you think?