Thread: Why won't my bout work?

I went headlong into this thing as anyone who has read my posts knows. I bought a shave ready Dovo a TM strop and TGQ soap to get started. I then set out to make my grandads razors shave or wear the worst one of them out trying. I bought a 220/1000, 4000/8000 a bout from Howard, and a RS 9.95 microscope. I got a razor to shave (sort of). I have it shaving pretty good off the 8000 Norton then go to the bout and screw them up. I am very careful with my angle and stroke still no dice. I go back and do a light pyrimid on the norton and strop it up and it shaves pretty good again. What gives, I have tried light slury, heavy slury, and no slury. Do i need a rectangle coticule? I didn't think the razors would know the difference.
Don

You are using a slurry stone on the Norton 8000? Bad move, don't do that. The slurry stones work good on natural stones and some higher grit synthetics but I wouldn't recommend it on the Norton.

I may have misled, I am using the slury on the bout. I bought the cotigura from Howard when I bought the rest of the stones. It is for the coticule.
Don

I believe that JoshEarl considers a yellow coticule with slurry to give a poor edge, and uses it without for finishing.

I don't like slurry on a coticule either. It is great for removing metal, but it messes up the edge.

For finishing I do 5 very light strokes on a coticule with a very very light slurry, and then rinse of the slurry, make it wet and do 5 very light passes with no slurry.

More is not necessary, and this way I get very smooth edges.

I got that idea in my head from Bruno. He's a good resource on the Belgian hones, since he's logged a few hours with them.

Josh

Since they are sourced in his back garden haha