Quote Originally Posted by gary haywood View Post
So basically your setting the bevel until thumb pad feels pocket knife sharp. I get that and no that feel very well. Then it's a case of dunking the razor in a cup of water and performing say 20 x stroke. Repeating until your honing with water, keep the stone wet like a good poodle of water to create a nice suction . I kind of do a similar thing using circles. I have to say it does work but not on every coticule I,ve used.

Nice to see you have good success . Many people try dilucot and do struggle , your method could well give some coticule honers something else to try. Are you using a linen and leather strop or just leather ?
Hey Gary! Nice hearing from ya,

I usually do linen, only the only servicable linen I have right now is on an Illinois Strop, the one with the barber's ends. I may pick up some fire hose linen in the near future.

I like circles too sometimes! I can get real, real sticky on my coticule faster with circles.

I have a question for you--do you keep going when you get suction or stop? I haven't determined that. I'm still working on my method, but like you say, I'm positive it's not original. I guess I basically do a dilucot but dilute with much more than a finger drop. I always interpreted "finger load" to mean just past the first knuckle--when I started diluting heavier I saw instant results.