Maetro Livi has a video in which he finishes with a coticule under running water.
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Maetro Livi has a video in which he finishes with a coticule under running water.
This is really making me want to snoop around antique stores to find a coticule to play with. I typically use a stroke I borrowed from Gary Haywood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAcsGnajQyQ
I'm a bit more mechanical with it though. If I'm really trying to work through material, like bevel setting I'll do sets of 20 and check every 2-3 sets. Otherwise I'll typically do a 20/10/5/3/2 back and forth stroke pattern on each side, then follow up with 10-20 X strokes to cover any burrs that may have arose due to the edge trailing strokes. Then I'll check and see where I'm at. If I like where it is, I'll dilute the slurry. If not I'll run the pattern again. Typically I dilute by spraying a line of water down the center of the hone and possibly scooping some material off with a razor stroke. It's not as much a gradual dilution as it is dilution by stages: thick/milky - medium/almost milky - thin/can see stone through slurry - almost pure water but still some slurry visible.
I don't know how well this will work with a coticule, but it works very well on a translucent Arkansas with coticule slurry.
There is a really simple reason why this works...for some stones.
Honing under running water is a way to compensate for a friable stone which may realease larger particles that can be rinsed away by a water flow.
IOW you can finish a razor on a not very hard stone by honing under a tap. it will not make one iota of difference on an adequately hard & fine finisher.
A razor sticking to a stone means you have a polished bevel sticking to a flat stone, not necessarily a set bevel.
Interesting...I'll have to keep that in mind.
To each there own, but the method you are advocating suggests that a coticule should be used as a finisher only. To me, finishing a razor on a coticule after a progression of synthetics is like reheating a pre-cooked tv dinner.
Unless there are chips on the edge, I like setting the bevel on the coticule with a thick slurry followed by dilution to plain water.
Slurry can be your friend.
Sure, which is why ultimately the finishing is done with water only. Slurry when used skilfully is what makes one stone honing possible.