Thread: Creating a slurry

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

For what it's worth, as I'm a newbie honer too, the slurry cuts WAY faster. I've experimented with honing on dry blue and yellow, then with slurry, with fast results with the slurry. I used to think this whole slurry business was just weird, but I'm a believer now.

I CAME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION AS YOU.

A SLURRY VAN.............FOREVER

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As a relative newcomer to honing, I have aquired a fantastic stone from Howard, a natural blue and yellow combo plus a cotigura the same. I also have a Norton combo. For general razor maintenance, does anyone have any suggestions for a pyramid for the yellow/blue ? Or do I just stay on the yellow until the blade gets quite dull.

With Belgian hones, there is no need to do pyramids. I usually only use the blue hone if I'm honing a razor from scratch. For touchups, I would stick with the coticule.

The main function of the blue in my arsenal is to take out the coarse scratches from my 1200-grit DMT diamond hone, which I use to repair a damaged edge. The blue does a great job of smoothing that out and setting up the edge for the coticule.

It is not fast-cutting enough to restore a severely damaged edge on its own, so if you really find that you need to drop down in grit to fix an edge, I'd consider using another hone first.

Josh

I meant to give a link to allprotools' little 4x1 DMTs – here it is. $7.86 – not bad.